A YINGQING STEM BOWL AND STAND

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A YINGQING STEM BOWL AND STAND
SONG DYNASTY

The bowl with gently rounded sides rising from a splayed pedestal foot to a petal-lobed rim, the stand formed as a shallow dish with central, stepped platform and a raised outer rim divided into six petals, raised on a spreading pedestal foot divided by incised lines and a notched rim into six petals, each centered by a ruyi-shaped cutout, both pieces covered with a clear glaze of blue-green tone, some restoration--cup 4¼in. (10.8cm.) diam., stand 5 3/4in. (14.6cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Compare the cup and stand of this type discovered at the kiln sites and included in the exhibition, Ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen Kilns (10th-17th Century), Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, 1992, Catalogue, no. 47. Others are in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers, Chinese Ceramics, vol. 1, 1972, no. A120; and two in the Tokyo National Museum illustrated in Mayuyama, Seventy Years, 1976, vol I, no. 442. Compare, also, cup and stand of this type sold at Christie's, London, April 21, 1986, lot 96