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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘LANÇA CHARACTER’ STEM CUP
Qianlong seal mark and of the period
Vividly painted around the steep flaring sides with eight lança
characters enclosed within undulating lotus stems issuing stylised
blossoms and acanthus leaves, the underside with a frieze of tightly-
bound lotus lappets, all raised on a tall spreading stem decorated
with bands of half-flowerheads and floral sprays on a raised rib above
pendent interlinked tassels issuing from ruyi-heads, the interior with a
stylised peony medallion within a double-line border repeated at the
rim, the interior of the foot with the six-character zhuanshu seal mark.
14.5cm (1 3/4in) diam.
£6,000 - 8,000
CNY53,000 - 70,000

清乾隆 青花纏枝蓮托梵文高足盌
青花「大清乾隆年製」篆書款

Provenance: a distinguished English institutional collection

來源：英國顯赫機構收藏

Compare with a similar blue and white stem cup, Qianlong seal mark
and period, of similar size, illustrated by U.Wiesner, Chinesisches
Porzellan: Die Ohlmer’sche Sammlung im Roemer-Museum, Mainz am
Rhein, 1981, pl.59. See also a slightly smaller example, illustrated in
Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum,
Tokyo, 1981, pl.13. Such cups were also made for the Imperial court
in other materials, such as cloisonné enamel and lacquer: see a
cloisonné enamel stem cup, Qianlong mark and period, illustrated in
Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Enamels 2 Qing
Dynasty, Beijing, 2011, pl.280; and a carved cinnabar lacquer stem
cup, Qianlong seal mark and period, in the Linden Museum, Stuttgart,
illustrated in Im Zeichen Des Drachen von der Schönheit Chinesischer
Lacke, Munich, 2006, pl.86. See also a similar blue and white stem cup, 103
Qianlong seal mark and of the period, which was sold at Bonhams Hong
Kong, 30 May 2017, lot 118.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.