Lot Essay
Similar Longquan celadon stem cups are in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, illustrated in The Charles B. Hoyt Collection Memorial Exhibition, Boston, 1952, p. 57, no. 227; in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated in the Illustrated Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum: Chinese Ceramics II, Tokyo, 1990, p. 7, no. 19; and in the Seligman Collection, published by J. Ayers, The Seligman Collection of Oriental Art, Vol. II, London, 1964, pl. LXI, no. D187, described on pp. 90-91. See, also, examples in the British Museum, London, of similar form without the lotus scroll on the exterior, illustrated by R. Harrison-Hall in Catalogue of Late Yuan and Ming Ceramics in the British Museum, London, 2001, pp. 463-464, nos. 16:2-16:5.