Lot Essay
Compare the very similar, slightly smaller, cup in the National Museum of History, Taibei, exhibited, The National Museum of History's Chinese Ceramic Collection Through the Age, 1997, Catalogue, no.11, p.20; another illustrated in Shandong Prehistorical Pottery Pictorial Catalogue, Jilu Book Society, Ji'nan, 1985, p.78; and a third of this shape exhibited Ancient Chinese Ceramics From The Neolithic Period to the Western Han, Uragami Sokyu-do Co. Ltd., 1994, Catalogue, no.48. Other stem-cups of varying proportions were included in the Uragami exhibition ibid., as nos. 42-57, and another illustrated in colour on p.8.