Lot 48
48
A RARE GLAZED STONEWARE BELL-FORM CUP

Details
A RARE GLAZED STONEWARE BELL-FORM CUP
TANG DYNASTY

Finely potted in a deep, bell shape, covered inside and out with a transparent, crackled glaze of pale bluish-white tone falling short of the slightly flared foot and flat base to expose the white porcelaneous ware--4in. (10.2cm.) diam.
Exhibited
Baltimore, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Born of Earth and Fire, Chinese Ceramics from the Scheinman Collection, September 9-November 8, 1992, no. 41

Lot Essay

Compare the three similar cups in the Royal Ontario Museum, illustrated by Yutaka Mino, Pre-Sung Dynasty Chinese Stonewares, Canada, 1974, nos. 37-39, where they are described as "Lo-yang" white wares.

The shape of this cup derived from metal prototypes, such as the deep bell-shaped bowl of the stem cups of the Tang period. See Gyllensvärd, Chinese Gold and Silver in the Carl Kempe Collection, Stockholm, 1953, no. 102