SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

Details

A QINGBAI CUP AND STAND
SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)
The cup with rounded sides and a straight rim is supported on a splayed foot, and the stand is in the form of an inverted cup surmounting a circular stepped flange supported on a slightly splayed foot. Both cup and stand are covered inside and out with a clear crackled glaze of pale greenish-white tone pooling to an aquamarine color at the recesses, the unglazed undersides revealing the fine white body.
2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam., the cup; 5 ¼ in. (13.3 cm.) diam., the stand

Provenance

Brian Page Antiques, Brighton, 7 May 2004.

Lot Essay

An almost identical qingbai cup and stand from Carl Kempe Collection is illustrated by B. Gyllensvärd in Chinese ceramics in the Carl Kempe collection, Stockholm, 1965, no. 537. See, also, another similar example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2016, lot 69.

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