A CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE PUZZLE CUP CHONGZHEN, CIR...

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£1,700

A CHINESE PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE PUZZLE CUP
CHONGZHEN, CIRCA 1640
of lotus-leaf form on three short feet, the interior of the leaf with white vines on a blue ground, the moveable centre in the form of  pod, containing seed holes for the eight immortals surrounding Shulao, the white glaze exterior with an underglaze blue inscription, the interior biscuit heightened in black enamel.
10.3cm wide

Provenance : From an English private collection, Highgate, London.
Sold by Marchant, 15th of May 1997.
Included by Marchant in their Exhibition of Seventeenth-Century Blue and White and Copper-Red and Their Predecessors, 1997,, no 40 pp 44.  This piece was part of a cargo salvaged by Captain Michael Hatcher in the South China Sea and was sold by Christie's Amsterdam in their auction of Fine and Important Late Ming and Transitional Porcelain, the second and final part of the Hatcher Collection, 12th and 13th June 1984, lots 950-965.

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Good overall condition, one of the interior stems is detached and now loose within the cup.