Lot 589
  • 589

A SET OF TWELVE BLUE AND WHITE CUPS AND COVERS QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

Estimate
80,000 - 120,000 HKD
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Description

  • 9 cm, 3 1/2  in.
each painted in underglaze-blue with flower vases each holding a blooming spray

Provenance

Collection of Hosokawa Morisada (1912-2005), Tokyo.

Exhibited

Hosokawa Morisada Collection ten II – Shinno jiki, Persia no touki [Morisada Hosokawa Collection exhibition II – Qing porcelains and Persian ceramics], Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, 1993, cat. no. 5.

Literature

Hosokawa Morisada, Mokumei goshiki: Shinchō jiki [Bewildering colours: Qing dynasty porcelains], Tokyo, 1992, pl. 52.

Condition

1st: approx. 1 cm shallow flake chip to the inner foot ring. 3rd: a minute flake and approx. 0.5 cm hairline to the rim of the cover. 5th: a minute nick to the rim of the cover and a minute glaze flake to the rim of the cup. 6th: an approx. 3 cm hairline to the rim of the cup and a minor firing line to the unglazed rim of the cover. 10th: a minute nick to the rim of the cup and two approx. 0.9 cm tiny firing lines under the glaze to the rim of the cover. 11th: two minor flakes to the rim of the cover, the larger approx. 0.4 x 0.4 cm.
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