A Ming-style blue and white stemcup, Daoguang seal mark and period. Photo Sotheby's
the body with deep flaring sides rising to an everted rim, decorated on the exterior with Tibetan lançacharacters interspersed by lotus blooms borne on thin stems issuing curling leaves, the tall splayed foot decorated with jeweled tassels below a lotus-lappet band, the interior with a floral medallion, seal mark in underglaze blue in a line inside the foot. Diameter 5 3/4 in., 14.6 cm. Estimation 8,000 — 12,000. Lot vendu: 37,500 USD
PROVENANCE: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 14th-15th November 1989, lot 238
PROPERTY FROM THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM AND JENNIFER SHAW
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