Collection Online as of December 4, 2023

Cup and Stand

China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen, Southern Song dynasty

(1127-1279)

Porcelain with pale bluish-white glaze, qingbai ("blue-white") ware

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.)

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 1980.185

Location

003 Special Exhibition Hall

Description

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.

Provenance

Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Bernat

November 7, 1980

(Sotheby's, November 7, 1980 sale, lot no. 84, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art through Eskenazi, Ltd.)

1980–

The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

Citations

Jalobsen, Kristian. Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty: (960-1275): April 11-May 31. Manchester, NH: Currier Gallery of Art, 1959. cat. no. 66

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. Reproduced: vol. III, p. 210, reel 29, no. 5

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. Mentioned; cat. no. 289, p. 219; Reproduced: p. 205 www.jstor.org

Neils, Jenifer. The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Museum in cooperation with Indiana University Press, 1982. cat. no. 108

Exhibition history

Chinese Ceramics of the Sung Dynasty. Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH (April 11-May 31, 1959).

The World of Ceramics: Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 30-September 5, 1982).

Year in Review: 1980. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (June 24-July 19, 1981).

China's Southern Paradise: Treasures from the Lower Yangzi Delta. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 10, 2023-January 7, 2024).