清康熙 黃釉劃「二龍爭珠」圖雙耳盃 《大清康熙年製》款

delicately thrown with translucent sides rising from a small foot to a gently everted rim, set with a pair of ear-shaped handles connected to the cup by a small strut, the exterior finely incised with a narrow band enclosing two pairs of confronting archaistic dragons flanking a central pearl, applied overall with a transparent ochre-yellow glaze pooling to an amber tone around the foot, the interior left white, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark written in two columns within double circles

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The cup is in overall very good condition. There is a minute iron spot the interior rim and a faint body line beneath the glaze around the foot.
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