SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

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A Qingbai Stem Cup and Stand
Southern Song dynasty, 11th-12th century
The delicately potted cup with shallow rounded sides flaring upwards from the short pedestal foot to the everted rim notched to create six petal lobes, the stand also raised on a spreading pedestal foot and with everted petal-lobed rim surrounding the shallow well and stepped platform that holds the cup, both covered overall with a glaze of good pale blue tone
5½in. (14cm.) diam. of stand, box

Lot Essay

Delicately potted cups and stands of this type were a very popular product of the Jingdezhen kilns in the Song dynasty and have been excavated from a number of Song dynasty tombs. A similar cup and stand excavated from a Northern Song tomb in the city of Nanchang in 1985 is discussed by Chen Baiquan, 'The Development of Song Dynasty Qingbai Wares from Jingdezhen', The Porcelains of Jingdezhen - Colloquies on Art & Archaeology in Asia No. 16, R. Scott (ed.), Percival David Foundation, London, 1993, p. 16, pl. 6.

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