Author: --

Size: D9.5cm

Signed and dated: 12th Century

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 900,000

Illustrated
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection. Hong Kong: Hong Kong Museum of Art，Urban Council，1994，cat. no. 65

Provenance
Sotheby’s London，November.12.2003，lot 78，
Muwen Tang Collection （Simon Kwan）
The Ten-Views Lingbi Rock Retreat Collection，no.EK199
Exhibitions
Song Ceramics from the Kwan Collection: Hong Kong Museum of Art，Hong Kong，1994.
The cup is finely potted with deep fluted sides rising from a tall footring to a lobed rim，covered with a thick greyish-green glaze suffused with a matrix of dark grey crackles. The unglazed foot reveals the dark stoneware body. Although the glazes of most Longquan celadon wares exhibit a bluish-green hue and are lack of crackles，fine crackled wares were also made at the Longquan kilns during the Southern Song period to imitate the Ge-type wares.