KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE CUP, COVER AND SAUCER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each in a variation of the 'Cuckoo in the House' pattern, depicting a building with a smoking chimney, with two birds flanking blossoming flowers and foliage, with underglaze blue double circle and sacred fungus emblem to underside
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diameter, the saucer

Provenance

With The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York (labels).

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

A similar teabowl and saucer was in the Mottahedeh Collection, also illustrated in D. Howard, Private Trader: The Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated in the Hodroff Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1997, pl. 10, p. 44.

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