A very large Chinese “blanc de Chine” libation cup. Kangxi period.

Libation cup “Blanc de Chine” with wavy rim and spreading foot. The sides are moulded with a prunus branch, a dragon pursuing a pearl and a ch’i-lin on one side, and a pine branch, crane, moon and tiger on the other. Porcelain of cold grayish-white tone.

COUNTRY : China

PERIOD : Kangxi (1662-1722)

MATIERIAL : Porcelain

SIZE : 4.21 in. (10,7cm) / 7.79 in. (19,8 cm)

REFERENCE : A105

STATUT : sold

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For an identical (exhibited at the Virginia Museum in 1981-1982), see Sotheby’s New York 30 january 1985, lot 38. It is illustrated by David Howard & John Ayers, China for the West, TI, p.103, no. 73.

Another example is in the Metropolitan Museum of New-York.

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A very large Chinese “blanc de Chine” libation cup. Kangxi period.

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