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四 46. A pair of Chinese imperial porcelain wine cups, each painted on the exterior in iron-red with two five-clawed dragons between

十 stylised ruyi-head clouds, one looking back at its mate above crested waves with sea spray, all between underglaze blue double lines.
六 2 ⅜ inches, 6 cm diameter.

Six-character marks of Xianfeng in underglaze blue and of the period, 1851-1861.
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製 • Formerly in the collection of William and Jennifer Shaw, collection nos. 165A/B, purchased circa 1990.
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紅 • An identical pair, from the collection of Warren Stratford Trevors, was included by Marchant in their Recent Acquisitions
海 catalogue, 2008, no. 45, pp. 100/1.
水 • Another pair, formerly in the collection of Simon Kwan, is illustrated by Peter Lam in Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from

雲 the Kwan Collection, no. 87b, p. 97, and was exhibited at The Art Gallery, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, and was

龍 included by Marchant in their Recent Acquisitions catalogue, 1997, no. 45, p. 48.
紋 • See no. 44.
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豐

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