A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER YONGZHENG FOUR-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Thickly potted in the shape of a bell and well painted in brilliant tones of cobalt with a continuous landscape of mountains and streams, with houses nestled beneath trees and a pair of scholars in conversation on a riverbank
3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) high

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A Yongzheng-marked cup of this shape but decorated with a scene from the Ode to the Red Cliff, from the Eugene O. Perkins Collection, sold in our New York Rooms, 2 June 1989, lot 41.

Compare also the related beaker, but with a Kangxi mark, sold in these Rooms, 1 October 1991, lot 815.

(US$4,000-5,000)

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