A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'FLOATING MAN' STEM-CUP, with rounded sides and everted rim, the exterior painted with a floral scroll band above petal panels, the stem with confronted ruyi-heads, the interior with a tortoise concealing a reticulated figure of a man with painted iron-brown decoration within a double circle with leaves, 9.5cm. diam.; two further stem-cups, one with a band of scrolling blossoms above petal panels (restored), 11.8cm. high; the other with plain exterior, 11.2cm high; a blue and white long-necked baluster vase with chrysanthemum meander above petal panels, the neck with confronted lotus panels (neck drilled), 19.5cm. high; and a blue and white globular jar of similar decoration (rim buffed), 12.8cm. high, all late 14th/15th Century (5)

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'FLOATING MAN' STEM-CUP, with rounded sides and everted rim, the exterior painted with a floral scroll band above petal panels, the stem with confronted ruyi-heads, the interior with a tortoise concealing a reticulated figure of a man with painted iron-brown decoration within a double circle with leaves, 9.5cm. diam.; two further stem-cups, one with a band of scrolling blossoms above petal panels (restored), 11.8cm. high; the other with plain exterior, 11.2cm high; a blue and white long-necked baluster vase with chrysanthemum meander above petal panels, the neck with confronted lotus panels (neck drilled), 19.5cm. high; and a blue and white globular jar of similar decoration (rim buffed), 12.8cm. high, all late 14th/15th Century (5)

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Cf. the similar example of a 'floating man' stem-cup illustrated by the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society, Vietnamese Ceramics, 1982, no. 110, which also has a central reticulated figure and tortoise in the interior

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