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13. A G l a z e d W h i t e P o r c e l a i n C u p s t a n d

Five Dynasties–Early Northern Song Dynasty, A.D. 10th Century

of floral form, with wide flaring sides rising from a shallow ring foot to a knife-pared undulating rim
divided into ten petal-lobes, the tall central cylindrical support for the cup carved with five deep
rounded notches at the rim, the high-fired white porcelain covered with a transparent glaze of pale
greenish tone, the flat recessed base left unglazed showing the fine-grained white porcelain body.

Height 21⁄2 inches (6.3 cm)
Diameter 61⁄2 inches (16.5 cm)

Compare the white porcelain cupstand with foliate flaring sides and a plain cylindrical support for the cup, excavated in 1956
from a Liao dynasty tomb in Beijing, now in the Capital Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Shoudu bowuguan cang ci xuan
(Selection of Porcelains in the Capital Museum), Beijing, 1990, p. 81, no. 39. The same white porcelain cupstand is illustrated
in China Archaeology and Art Digest, June 2000, Vol. 3, No. 4, p. 62, fig. 7, in a monograph entitled “Basic Characteristics of
Ding Kiln Porcelain and the Identification of Kilns Firing Imitation Ding Kiln Porcelain”, by Liu Yi, where the author attributes
the piece to the Liao dynasty Longquanwu kiln discovered in 1975 in the Mentougou district of Beijing.

Compare also to the slightly smaller example from the Meiyintang collection illustrated by Krahl in the catalogue entitled
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, Volume Three (II), London, 2006, p. 417, no. 1417, identified by the author
as Xing type ware produced outside of the Xingzhou region.

五代/北宋初 白瓷盞托 高 6.3 厘米 徑 16.5 厘米