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1972.43-20 (C-575)
Stem Cup

Qing dynasty, Yongzheng period (1723-1735)
Porcelain with underglaze red decoration,
5
11.7 x 15.6 (4 /s x 6Vs)
Harry G. Steele Collection, Gift of Grace C. Steele
TECHNICAL NOTES
Minute scratches in the glaze on the interior. The hollow foot is
glazed on the interior, and the foot-ring is sharply trimmed.

PROVENANCE
(Parish-Watson Gallery, New York); sold to Harry G. Steele
[1881-1941], Pasadena; his widow, Grace C. Steele.

T A TITH ITS CLASSICAL SHAPE, this stem cup reflects the
V V renewed taste for simple, elegant forms and spare
decoration that characterized the Yongzheng reign. Three
fish painted in underglaze red decorate the exterior. This
vessel and its decoration copy a prototype from the early
Ming-dynasty reign of Xuande. 1
SL

NOTES
i. National Palace 1980, pi. 124.

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