CHINA / 5000 YEARS
CHINA / 5000 YEARS
A rare qingbai 'prunus' lobed stemcup, Yuan dynasty, 14th century 元十四世紀 青白釉貼花梅式高足盃
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May 25, 10:44 AM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 120,000 HKD
Lot Details
Description
A rare qingbai 'prunus' lobed stemcup,
Yuan dynasty, 14th century
元十四世紀 青白釉貼花梅式高足盃
8.7 cm
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, label no. 3583.
The Meiyintang Collection.
藍理捷，紐約，標籤編號3583
玫茵堂收藏
The Meiyintang Collection.
藍理捷，紐約，標籤編號3583
玫茵堂收藏
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 4, London, 1994-2010, pl. 1613.
康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，卷四，倫敦，1994至2010年，圖版1613
康蕊君，《玫茵堂中國陶瓷》，卷四，倫敦，1994至2010年，圖版1613
Applied motifs and pearl beading, which are often seen on Yuan Jingdezhen porcelains, may be derived from the adornment of Bodhisattva figures, which the kilns also produced at that time. Porcelain vessels of this type, which capture the moment just before the introduction of underglaze-blue painting, tend to be particularly finely and thinly potted.
A similar stemcup, but in the shape of a peach blossom with pointed petals, and with pearl beading also down the outer sides, was recovered from a ship sunk in AD 1323 off the coast of Shinan, Korea; see The Shinan Wreck, 3 vols, Mokpo, 2006, vol. III, pl. 114; another excavated in Xi'an and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, Xi'an, is published in Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi [Porcelain of the Yuan dynasty], Beijing, 1998, pl. 417; and one with additional scrollwork and petal panels in relief around the outside was excavated from a kiln at Hutian near Jingdezhen and included in the exhibition Ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen Kilns (10th-17th Century), Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1992, cat. no. 121.
A similar stemcup from the Carl Kempe collection is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, 1980-82, vol. VIII, no. 200; another is published in Nigel Wood, Chinese Glazes. Their Origins, Chemistry and Recreation, London, 1999, p. 52; and one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 651. Compare also a small hexafoil dragon-handled cup from the Severance and Greta Millikin collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art, executed in the same style with lobes and rim outlined by beaded borders and the centre applied with a prunus blossom, illustrated in Michael R. Cunningham et al., Masterworks of Asian Art, Cleveland, 1998, p. 69.
A similar stemcup, but in the shape of a peach blossom with pointed petals, and with pearl beading also down the outer sides, was recovered from a ship sunk in AD 1323 off the coast of Shinan, Korea; see The Shinan Wreck, 3 vols, Mokpo, 2006, vol. III, pl. 114; another excavated in Xi'an and now in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, Xi'an, is published in Ye Peilan, Yuandai ciqi [Porcelain of the Yuan dynasty], Beijing, 1998, pl. 417; and one with additional scrollwork and petal panels in relief around the outside was excavated from a kiln at Hutian near Jingdezhen and included in the exhibition Ceramic Finds from Jingdezhen Kilns (10th-17th Century), Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1992, cat. no. 121.
A similar stemcup from the Carl Kempe collection is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, New York, San Francisco, 1980-82, vol. VIII, no. 200; another is published in Nigel Wood, Chinese Glazes. Their Origins, Chemistry and Recreation, London, 1999, p. 52; and one was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 651. Compare also a small hexafoil dragon-handled cup from the Severance and Greta Millikin collection in the Cleveland Museum of Art, executed in the same style with lobes and rim outlined by beaded borders and the centre applied with a prunus blossom, illustrated in Michael R. Cunningham et al., Masterworks of Asian Art, Cleveland, 1998, p. 69.