AN UNUSUAL SMALL HUOZHOUYAO CUP

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AN UNUSUAL SMALL HUOZHOUYAO CUP
YUAN DYNASTY

With shallow rounded sides rising from a slightly flared ring foot, the flat handle projecting from one side with bracketed outline and molded on top in thread relief with a fish, covered with a glaze of ivory tone stopping in an irregular line on the exterior to expose the fine-grained white ware beneath, a ring of five tiny spur marks on the interior, hair crack--4 5/16in. (10.cm.) across

Provenance

Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat

Exhibited

Boston, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Exhibition of the Chinese Ceramics Lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat, September 9-October 19, 1947, no. 77
Manchester, New Hampshire, Currier Gallery of Art, Early Chinese Ceramics, October 8-November 29, 1959, no. 45

Lot Essay

Compare the similar cup from the Ingram Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, included in the museum's exhibition, From Silver to Ceramic, 1986, Catalogue, pl. 35, where it is illustrated with a silver cup of the same form from the Kempe Collection; and another illustrated by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. 1, no. 510