SOUTHERN SONG DYNASTY (1127-1279)

See B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese ceramics in the Carl Kempe collection, Stockholm, 1965, no. 108, for a Longquan cup of similar shape and glaze. Another similar Longquan cup from the Muwen Tang Collection illustrated in Song Ceramics from The Kwan Collection, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 66, p. 168, and later sold at Sotheby’s London, 12 November 2003, lot 89. See, also, the Longquan cup of similar shape, but covered with a greenish-grey Guan-type glaze, in the Barlow Collection, illustrated by M. Sullivan, in Chinese Ceramics, Bronzes and Jades in the Collection of Sir Alan and Lady Barlow, London, 1963, pl. 91c.