
This auction has ended. View lot details
You may also be interested in



















Property from a private San Francisco Bay Area Collector
Lot 7242
A blue and white stem cup with anhua decoration Kangxi period
23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
San FranciscoUS$10,000 - US$15,000
Looking for a similar item?
Our specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.
Find your local specialistAsk about this lot


Client Services (Los Angeles)

Client Services (San Francisco)
A blue and white stem cup with anhua decoration
Kangxi period
Thinly potted with a flared rim to the wide, curving well and raised on a tall conical foot, the fabric on the interior delicately molded with alternating lotus flowers and siddham roundels issuing from interlocked strap-work scrolls, the floor of the well painted in underglaze blue with a lotus and tendril roundel that repeats in a fluid pattern on the exterior walls, the lustrous glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad and burnt russet brown where thin along the rim.
5 3/4in (14.5cm) diameter
3 7/8in (9.8cm) high
Thinly potted with a flared rim to the wide, curving well and raised on a tall conical foot, the fabric on the interior delicately molded with alternating lotus flowers and siddham roundels issuing from interlocked strap-work scrolls, the floor of the well painted in underglaze blue with a lotus and tendril roundel that repeats in a fluid pattern on the exterior walls, the lustrous glaze covering all surfaces except the foot pad and burnt russet brown where thin along the rim.
5 3/4in (14.5cm) diameter
3 7/8in (9.8cm) high
Footnotes
For two similarly shaped cups with underglaze blue and anhua decoration, each ascribed to the Kangxi period, see the Southeast Asian Ceramics exhibition, Chinese Blue & White Ceramics, 1978, pp. 232-33: no. 265 with similar russet-burnt firing ring (13cm high); no. 266 with unidentified anhua decoration on the interior (11cm high) but with arabesque scrolls painted on the exterior walls similar to the anhua decoration that appears on the interior walls of this lot.














