CHONGZHEN

Details

A blue and white wine cup
CHONGZHEN
The steep sides with slightly flaring rim, decorated to the exterior with a horizontal row of flames above a whorl-pattern band, two minute hairlines
3.5 cm. high, 4.5 cm. diam.

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Lot Essay

Similar examples were sold at Christie's Amsterdam, The Hatcher Cargo, 14 March, 1984, lots 436-439; and also C.L. van der Pijl-Ketel, The Ceramic Load of the 'Witte Leeuw', Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, p. 144, inv. no. NG 1977-128W.

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