TWO WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED STEM CUPS

YUAN/MING DYNASTY, 14TH-16TH CENTURY

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TWO WHITE-GLAZED ANHUA-DECORATED STEM CUPS
YUAN/MING DYNASTY, 14TH-16TH CENTURY
The smaller with deep rounded sides rising to a slightly everted rim, and decorated in relief on the interior with a dragon pursuing a flaming pearl amidst clouds, all under a blue-tinted white glaze; the larger with broad bowl, the interior decorated in relief with the bajixiang (Eight Buddhist Emblems) below the rim, all under a white glaze
4 3/8 and 5 7/8 in. (11.2 and 15 cm.) diam. (2)
Provenance
Small cup: C. Edward Wells, Bridgewater, Connecticut, 1963.
Large cup: Ruth Dreyfus Collection, 1970.
Exhibited
Small cup: Columbia University, New York, February 1965.
Inaugural Exhibition, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, 4 April 1986.
Large cup: 3500 Years of Chinese Art: Ceramics from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, 1987.

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