A RARE BLUE AND WHITE STEM CUP

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE STEM CUP
QIANLONG SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD

Painted in a blue of deep tone with eight lança characters on the rounded sides, below a band of stylized lotus roundels within double lines at the rim and above flame lappets ascending from the tall, spreading foot, similarly painted with stylized lotus, the nianhao written in a line inside the foot (rim polish, interior wear)
6¼in. (15.8cm) diam.

Lot Essay

A number of stembowls of this pattern with a Qianlong mark are known. One in the Musée Guimet, illustrated by Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, London, 1987, p. 128. no. 171; in the Tsui Art Foundation, included in the exhibition, Gems of Chinese Art, Singapore, 1992, Catalogue, no. 97; and another included in the exhibition, Selected Pieces from the Collections of the ROC Society of Collectors, Singapore, 1989, Catalogue, no. 115