A PAIR OF CHENGHUA-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE WINE CUPS

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A PAIR OF CHENGHUA-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE WINE CUPS
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD

Finely painted to each body with six flower-heads surrounded by scrolling leafy tendrils, all within double-line borders, the interior with six individual floral sprays, all painted in bright inky-blue tones
1 3/8 in. (3.6 cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Two Chenghua cups of this design were included in the Japanese exhibition Imperial Porcelain: Recent Discoveries of Jingdezhen Ware, 1985, Catalogue, nos. 26 and 27, the first with a Chenghua mark the second with an apocryphal Xuande mark.

(US$16,000-20,000)

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