A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE WATER COUPE

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A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE MING-STYLE WATER COUPE
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted with a composite flower scroll around the compressed body between lappets at the foot and a ruyi-cloud collar at the shoulder, the rim with a small indent to serve as a spoon rest --4 1/2in. (11.5cm.) diam., box

Lot Essay

A slightly smaller water basin with a similar flower scroll below a classic scroll border at the rim in Shenyang Palace Museum, Liaoning Province, illustrated with a small gilt spoon is included in Son of Heaven, Imperial Arts of China, pl. 30a.

Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 250

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