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Tang White-ware Cup
Sui-Tang Dynasty, 6th - 7th c. China
Height: 8.25 cm
A porcelaineous cup of inverted bell-shape, sitting on a tall splayed foot. The piece is covered with a finely crackled
translucent glaze that pools to a kelly-green at the bottom, culminating in a luminous drip. The very bottom of the cup-form
and the foot are unglazed, revealing a white clay body. The bottom of the foot is flat.
Condition: The cup is in good structural condition and has some minute glaze pops from firing. There is some burial debris
near the mouth-rim and on the foot.
These are likely from the Gongyi Kilns of Henan Province. See Gongyi Kilns of China, Chinese Overseas Publishers, Beijing
2011. Pg. 45.
Provenance:
From a private Japanese collection, with Bunkacho export permit.
