Lot 283: A Chinese Doucai Style Stem Cup with Courtly...
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A Chinese Doucai Style Stem Cup with Courtly Figures, Marked Da Qing Tongzhi Nian Zhi.
A finely enameled Chinese porcelain stem cup decorated in the Doucai style, featuring a continuous narrative scene of courtly figures, attendants, and scholars in a garden terrace beneath billowing clouds and amidst flowering trees. The vibrant palette of iron-red, emerald green, cobalt blue, and yellow glazes enriches the intricately painted figures. The interior base is adorned with a circular landscape medallion depicting trees and pavilion elements in cobalt blue and green. The stem is encircled with classic wave motifs above a foliate petal band and bears a six-character Da Qing Tongzhi Nian Zhi mark in underglaze blue, possibly indicating the period or origin of the piece.
H: Approximately 16cm
D: Approximately 17.8cm
Provenance: Private collection from a distinguished W London collector.
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