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四 44. Imperial blue and white stem cup, gao zu bei, with flared rim, the exterior painted with eight lanca characters, each
十 above a stylised lotus flowerhead and separated by foliage, the sloping underside with a band of lappets, the splayed foot
四 with tassels pendant from ruyi-heads, beneath a raised rib with stylised branches of flowers and leaves, the well of the

interior with a circular stylised flowerhead medallion within double lines repeated beneath the rim.
御 9.8cm high.
製 The inside of the foot with six-character seamark of Qianlong in underglaze blue and of the period, 1736-1795.
青 Fitted box.
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纏 • Sold by Sotheby’s Hong Kong in their auction of Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 20th May 1981, no. 746,
枝 pp. 96/7.
花 • An identical stem cup was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, 1984,
卉 no. 29; another in The Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, is illustrated by Patricia F. Ferguson
紋 in Cobalt Treasures, The Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, no. 30, p. 34; a further slightly smaller
梵 example is illustrated in Catalogue of the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Blue and White Wares of the Ch’ing
文 Dynasty, Book II, pl. 30.
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