A TRANSPARENT GREEN GLASS CUP

TANG-LIAO DYNASTY, 9TH-12TH CENTURY

Details

A TRANSPARENT GREEN GLASS CUP
TANG-LIAO DYNASTY, 9TH-12TH CENTURY
With deep sides flaring slightly towards the mouth rim, and raised on a shallow foot ring, of light green colour, with some encrustation
2 1/4 in. (5.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Eskenazi, London, 13 June 1994

Literature

C.F. Shangraw and C. Brown, A Chorus of Colors: Chinese Glass from Three American Collections, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, 1995, no. 8

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Lot Essay

This cup appears to be related to smaller cups of similar shape and colour, such as the pale green example (2.4 cm. high), excavated in 1957 from the Sui dynasty tomb of Li Jingxun, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji - Gongyi meishu bian, 10, Beijing, 1987, p. 118, no. 226, which appears to be slightly thicker than the present cup.

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