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The group comprises: two pairs of café-au-lait-ground blue and white cups and saucers decorated to the interior with a flower spray and the rims with a triangular border, the bases are marked with an artemisia leaf in underglaze blue within a double circle, the cups are decorated the interior with a flower growing from rocks, the rims with a diamond border, and the bases with a conch shell in underglaze blue within a double circle; a pair of blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers, each affixed with two shaped handles, each interior is decorated with a peony blossom, the exterior decorated with eight lotus-shaped panels enclosing a winding flowering vine. The covers are similarly decorated and are surmounted by a lotus bud finial. The bases each with a conch shell mark in a double circle.
Catalogue note:
Compare a similar cup without handles in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Rose Kerr and Luisa E. Mengoni, "Chinese Export Ceramics", London, 2011, pp. 26-27, pl. 23.
The saucers: 2 cm. high x 13 cm. diam.
The cups: 5 cm. high x 8.3 cm. diam.
The chocolate cups: 10.7 cm. high
Condition: One saucer: with two very short hairlines to the rim (the longer approx. 0.8 cm.).
The others all appear to be in overall good condition.
All with some very small nicks.
Origin: China
Period: Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Sizes: 13.00 cm. diameter
5.12 in. diameter