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A RARE EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE STEMCUP
XUANDE MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD
The exterior painted with two winged dragons in flight amidst scattered clouds above a wave-tossed sea, and with lingzhi-shaped vaporous clouds rising from a band of rocks and waves on the flared pedestal foot, the underglaze blue of bright inky tone with "heaped and piled" effect, the mark on the interior below a double-line border at the rim, base flat, hairline crack, restored rim chip--4 in. (11.4 cm.) diam., wood stand
