YUYAN SHUWU FOUR-CHARACTER HALLMARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE, YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)

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A GLAZED WINE CUP WITH CUT-OUT DECORATION
YUYAN SHUWU FOUR-CHARACTER HALLMARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE, YONGZHENG-QIANLONG PERIOD (1723-1795)
The finely potted cup is decorated with a delicate cut-out band of flower sprays and covered inside and out with a clear glaze that fills in the cut-out design and ends in a neat line above the foot.
2 ¾ in. (7 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

A larger bowl with closely related decoration, but with a Qianlong mark, is in the Palace Museum Collection and illustrated in Selected Porcelains of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Beijing, 1994, p. 362, pl. 99. Compare, also, a similarly decorated bowl and cover, previously in the Mary Clark Thompson (1835-1923) Collection, sold at Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie's New York, 15 September 2016, lot 966.

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