Glazed white porcelaneous stoneware cup with rounded sides, standing on a low foot-ring. The interior is freely carved with a lotus flower on a stem with scrolling foliage; the exterior is plain. The entire cup, apart from the unglazed rim, is covered with a transparent glaze of ivory-white tone with characteristic ‘tear drops’ on the exterior.
Provenance:
Mr. and Mrs. Myron S. Falk, Jr., New York.
Private collection, U.S.A.
Exhibited:
London, 2015, Eskenazi Limited.
Published:
Christie’s, New York, The Falk Collection I, Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 16 October 2001 (postponed from 20 September 2001), number 53 (Falk collection number 136).
Eskenazi, London, Principal wares of the Song period from a private collection, 8 – 29 May 2015, number 9.
Similar examples:
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, White Porcelain of Ding yao, Tokyo, 1983, plate 129.
Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, revised and enlarged edition, New York, 1989, page 89, plate 82 for the example in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, volume 1, London, 1994, number 361.
The Palace Museum, Selection of Ding Ware, the Palace Museum’s Collection and Archaeological Excavation, Beijing, 2012, pages 254 - 255, number 109 for an example excavated at the Ding kiln site in Quyang county, Hebei province.