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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE
CUP, COVER AND SAUCER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Each in a variation of the 'Cuckoo in the House' pattern,
depicting a building with a smoking chimney, with two birds
flanking blossoming flowers and foliage, with underglaze blue
double circle and sacred fungus emblem to underside
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diameter, the saucer (3)
$600-800
PROVENANCE:
With The Chinese Porcelain Company, New York (labels).

A similar teabowl and saucer was in the Mottahedeh
Collection, also illustrated in D. Howard, Private Trader: The
Private Market in Chinese Export Porcelain Illustrated in the
Hodroff Collection, St. Paul, Minnesota, 1997, pl. 10, p. 44.

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A GROUP OF CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE
AND WHITE TABLE WARES
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Comprising a pair of salts or stands, a teabowl
and saucer and a small dish; the salts decorated
with scholar's objects and antiques between
double bands of underglaze blue; the teabowl
and saucer decorated with three leaping carp
in crashing waves, the center of the cup with a
basket, each with a fret mark within underglaze
blue double circle to underside; the dish decorated
at the center with a lady and two boys in a rocky
landscape, the rim decorated with a geometric
band and four reserves of flower petals and
foliage, the reverse rim with auspicious symbols,
the underside with underglaze blue apocryphal
Chenghua six-character mark within double circle
6º in. (15.7 cm.) diameter, the dish (5)
$1,500-2,000

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