A PAIR OF LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE STEMCUPS

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A PAIR OF LATE MING BLUE AND WHITE STEMCUPS
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Each painted around the sides with scholars conversing in a pavilion setting, above a lappet band at the base, supported on a raised foot with a band of descending stiff leaves, the central roundel at the interior with a scholar seated beneath a pine tree within a treble-line circle and a trellis-pattern band at the splayed rim, one with rim chips restored, the other with rim frits and incised tian (heaven) character
5¾ in. (14.6 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

D. Saunders, no.20

Lot Essay

Compare the very similar stem cup illustrated by J. A. Pope and M. Brunet, The Frick Collection, An Illustrated Catalogue, New York, 1974, vol.VII, pp.16 and 17, and on the front cover, Chinese Blue-and-White Porcelain in the Frick Collection, 1992.

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