A SET OF TEN FAMILLE ROSE NESTING CUPS
A SET OF TEN FAMILLE ROSE NESTING CUPS

TONGZHI SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1862-1874)

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A SET OF TEN FAMILLE ROSE NESTING CUPS
TONGZHI SEAL MARKS IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1862-1874)
Each with flared sides decorated with immortals, scholars and their attendants engaged in various outdoor pursuits, including drinking wine, brewing tea, playing weiqi and admiring scroll paintings, the smallest cup decorated in the well with a figure of the young Liuhai suspending a string of cash above his three-legged toad
1 3/8 to 4¼ in. (3.4 to 10.7 cm.) diam. (10)

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A set of ten wine cups of similar size, with Tongzhi marks and of the period, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, The Helen D. Ling Collection of Chinese Ceramics, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, 18 January - 9 March, 1995, p. 81, no. 84 a-j.

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