Cup and Stand (1100s): Art, History and Details

Cup and Stand (1100s) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection.

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

The kilns of Jingdezhen in Jiangxi province produced an extremely delicate porcelain made from the local resources of kaolin (white China clay) and petuntse (a feldspathic rock called china stone). It is glazed with a clear bluish-white glaze, thus the name qingbai (blue-white) or yingqing (shadowy blue) for this type of ware.

Object facts

• Title: Cup and Stand
• Date: 1100s
• Culture: China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279)
• Type: Ceramic
• Technique: Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, qingbai ("blue-white") ware
• Dimensions: Diameter: 4.9 x 10.5 cm (1 15/16 x 4 1/8 in.); Overall: 4.8 cm (1 7/8 in.); stand: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)
• Collection: China - Song Dynasty
• Department: Chinese Art
• Accession number: 1980.185

Collection credit

Gifts of Laurence H. Norton, Robert G. Norton, and Mrs. Miriam Norton White in memory of Mr. and Mrs. D. Z. Norton; Mrs. A. S. Chisholm; Horace E. Potter; and the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust by exchange

Further reading listed by the museum

• Jalobsen, Kristian. Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty: (960-1275): April 11-May 31. Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1959.
• Garner, Harry Mason, Margaret Medley, William B. Gruber, and Rupert P. Leach. Chinese Art in Three-Dimensional Colour. [New York]: Published for the Gruber Foundation by the Asia Society, 1969.
• Lee, Sherman E. “The Year in Review for 1980.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, vol. 68, no. 6, 1981, pp. 163–219.

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