A blue and white stem cup
Circa 1500
The deep rounded bowl rising from a slightly splayed hollowed foot, painted around the exterior with four carp swimming amidst water-weeds and aquatic plants, all above wave motifs at the foot, the interior painted with a central medallion enclosing a single fish amidst weeds.
11cm (4⅜in) high
The deep rounded bowl rising from a slightly splayed hollowed foot, painted around the exterior with four carp swimming amidst water-weeds and aquatic plants, all above wave motifs at the foot, the interior painted with a central medallion enclosing a single fish amidst weeds.
11cm (4⅜in) high
Sold for
£18,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance: Alfred and Ivy Clark, no.274
Spink & Son, London, no.31
Purchased at the Ceramic Art Fair, London, in the 1980s
Ove Stenbeck Collection, no.40
Exhibited: Spink & Son, Blue and White Porcelain from the collection of Mrs Alfred Clark, London, 1974, Catalogue no.31.
Den Befriade Penseln. 300 År av Kinesiskt Porslin och Konsthantverk. Collection Stenbeck, Heinola, Finland, 4 June - 3 September 2000
Category: Asian Art / Chinese Works of Art
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