AN INCISED WHITE-GLAZED STEMCUP with thinly potted semi-eggshell sides flaring to a slightly everted rim, the exterior and interior sides carved in the early Ming style with elaborate lotus scrolls in anhua, the interior incised in the centre with a six-character Qianlong mark, the flared foot with a similar scroll beneath lotus panels at the base of the cup (small chip and rim polished), Qianlong six-character mark and of the period

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AN INCISED WHITE-GLAZED STEMCUP with thinly potted semi-eggshell sides flaring to a slightly everted rim, the exterior and interior sides carved in the early Ming style with elaborate lotus scrolls in anhua, the interior incised in the centre with a six-character Qianlong mark, the flared foot with a similar scroll beneath lotus panels at the base of the cup (small chip and rim polished), Qianlong six-character mark and of the period
10.2cm. high, fitted old Tibetan lacquer box (damaged)

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Cf. a similar pair of stem cups in the Baur Collection, illustrated by J.Ayers, Catalogue,Vol. III, A 418,419; another example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Special Exhibition of K'ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty,Catalogue, 1986, no.83

A similar stem cup was sold in these Rooms, 6 June 1988, lot 118 and another in our Rooms in Hong Kong, 17 January 1989

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