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A VERY RARE MING-STYLE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DRAGON’ STEM CUP
317
KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)
The bowl with rounded sides rising from a tall faring stem to a faring rim is decorated on the exterior with
two striding fve-clawed dragons amidst clouds above breaking waves and rocks around the base and
stem, the center of the interior with an apocryphal Xuande six-character mark within a double circle.
3æ in. (9.6 cm.) diam.

$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE

Private collection, London.

For the Xuande-period prototype see the stem cup from the Ernest Thornhill Collection sold at Lyon
& Turnbull Hong Kong, 31 May 2016, lot 84. A range of early Qing Ming-style porcelains bearing
apocryphal Xuande marks, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, are illustrated in Ming Xuande Ciqi
Tezhan Mulu, Taipei, 1980, where examples of stem cups are illustrated, nos. 67, 71, 73 and 74.
清康熙/雍正 青花龍紋高足杯