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A SET OF SIX BLUE AND WHITE NESTING CUPS
CHONGZHEN PERIOD, CIRCA 1643
Of graduating size, each cup is decorated with various figures of sages, attendants and a dignitary in a landscape. Three cups bear apocryphal Chenghua marks and three are inscribed on the base with the character ya ('elegant´).
1 7/8 in. (4.5 cm.) to 3 ¼ in. (8 cm.) diam.
Provenance
The Property of Captain Michael Hatcher; Christie's Amsterdam, 14 March 1984, lot 483.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.
Literature
Julia B. Curtis, “Transitionware Made Plain: A Wreck in the South China Sea,” Oriental Art, Volume XXXI, No. 2, Summer, 1985, p. 165, fig. 7.
Colin Sheaf and Richard Kilburn, The Hatcher Porcelain Cargoes, The Complete Record, London, 1988, pp. 28-29, pl. 15.

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