A FINE AND VERY RARE SMALL BLUE AND WHITE CUP

QING UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED WARES

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A FINE AND VERY RARE SMALL BLUE AND WHITE CUP
ENCIRCLED KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep, bell-shaped body raised on a small ring foot and painted in a fine pale blue 'pencilled' line with a pattern of foam-crested waves rising towards the slightly flared rim--3 5/8in. (9.2cm.)diam.

Provenance

Lindberg Collection

Exhibited

S. Marchant & Son, Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, 1984, Catalogue, no. 6

Lot Essay

See J.J. Marquet de Vasselot and Mlle. M.S. Ballot, The Louvre Museum, Chinese Ceramics, K'ang Hsi Period to Our Days, Catalogue, col. pl. 30, for a similar example in white reserved on a coral ground with a Yongzheng mark

Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 1 June 1990, lot 256

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