TWO GLAZED WHITE STONEWARE CUPS SUI / TANG DYNASTY

each thinly potted of deep U-shape, supported on a low flaring foot, covered overall in a transparent glaze suffused with crackles, pooling to shades of green on the interior and around the foot, the base unglazed revealing the white body (2)

The cups are in overall good condition. There is some kiln adhesion to the foot and scattered tiny pieces of kiln grit to the body on both cups.
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See a set of four similarly glazed white stoneware cups in the Meiyintang Collection, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, vol. 1, 1994, no. 200. Other similarly shaped cups excavated at the Xing kiln site in Hebei province, attributed to the Sui dynasty are illustrated in Wenwu, 1987, no. 9, p.4, fig. 6, and p. 5, fig. 10.