Provenance:|Mayuyama & Co., Tokyo, purchased 28 May 1952|The stem cup appeared during the Yuan period: see Zhu Boqian, Longquan Yao Qing Ci (Celadons from Longquan), Taipei, 1998, nos. 198-201, pp. 217-220. However the olive-green glaze and fluidly drawn lotus and leafy vine motives incised into this cup are more typical of larger Longquan celadon dishes ascribed to the 15th century by Regina Krahl in Chinese Ceramics in the Topkapi Saray Museum, Istanbul, 1986, vol. I, cat. nos. 305 and ff., p. 317.|