A SMALL WHITE-GLAZED FLOWER-FORM WINE CUP

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF MRS. JAMES ALSDORF

Details

A SMALL WHITE-GLAZED FLOWER-FORM WINE CUP
YONGZHENG MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep, thinly potted sides carved and finely incised on the exterior with a wide band of petals rising to the slightly lipped rim from a narrower band of petals with raised outlines above the foot, all under a milk-white glaze--3½in. (9cm.) diam., box

Further details

See illustration with lots 238 and 239

Lot Essay

A pair of bowls of this pattern and size is illustrated by Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, pl. 56, no. 74. Others are illustrated in the Kempe Collection Catalogue, no. 747; by Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, no. 340; and by Tam, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1984, Catalogue no. 58