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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF DR. MAURICE BERGER
1016
A DING FOLIATE-RIMMED CUP STAND
LATE TANG-FIVE DYNASTIES, 9TH-10TH CENTURY
The stand has fared sides which rise to a foliate rim pinched inwards to create A white-glazed cup stand of very similar form from Xuezhuang, Anyang
fve lobes and is covered overall with a white glaze of bluish-white tone. county, Henan province and now in the collection of Henan institute of Cultural
Relics and Archaeology, is illustrated by B. Zhang, Complete Collection of
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.
Ceramic Art Unearthed in China - 12 - Henan, Beijing, 2008, no. 66.
$4,000-6,000
Compare, also, the slightly smaller cup stand, dated Tang to Five Dynasties,
9th-10th century, included in the Bluett and Sons Ltd. exhibition, The Postan
Collection of Early Chinese Ceramics, 1972, no. 4; and another similar cup
PROVENANCE
Myron and Pauline Falk Collection, New York, no. 170. stand dated to Tang dynasty from the Carl Kempe Collection illustrated by
The Falk Collection II Chinese and Japanese Works of Art, Christie’s New York, B. Gyllensvärd, Chinese ceramics in the Carl Kempe collection, Stockholm,
15 October 2001, lot 428 (part). 1965, no. 337, and later sold at Sotheby’s London, 14 May 2008, lot 224.
Another similar cup stand dated Tang-Five Dynasties, was included in the
Nezu Institute of Fine Arts exhibition, Toji hakuji, seiji, sancai (Tang pottery
EXHIBITED
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, Masterpiece of the Month, and porcelain), Tokyo, 1988, no. 24.
4 September-26 October 2014.
West Palm Beach, Florida, Norton Museum of Art, High Tea: Glorious A white-glazed foliate cup stand of the same form, but lacking raised lines,
Manifestations- East and West, 19 February-24 May 2015.
is illustrated by M. Sato and G. Hasebe (eds.), Sekai toji zenshu, vol. 11, Sui
Tang, Tokyo, 1976, p. 167, no. 165, where it is dated to the 10th century. In the
LITERATURE
L. B. Barnes, High Tea: Glorious Manifestations-East and West, West Palm same volume, the authors illustrate p. 181, fg. 5, a Tang dynasty silver-gilt
Beach, Florida, 2014, p. 129, no. C2. cup stand with the same folded-in foliations at the rim, which was found
outside the Heping gate at Xi’an.
晚唐/五代 定窯花口盞托