Lot 7
7
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BEAKERS

Details
A PAIR OF BLUE AND WHITE BEAKERS
KANGXI PERIOD

Of European glass shape, the fluted bodies moulded with petal-shaped borders and painted in inky tones of cobalt blue with flowering vines and floral sprigs, each with small artemesia leaf mark in underglaze blue on the base (covers lacking, one with large piece out of rim and restuck)--9¼in. (23.5cm.) high (2)

Lot Essay

See Le Corbeiller, Patterns of Exchange, p. 27 for a discussion of this form, which was one of the more interesting shapes found in the 'Vung Tao Cargo', shipwrecked circa 1690 and sold at Christie's Amsterdam, April 7-8, 1992.