Ref: W655
£ 450
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Chinese blanc de chine libation cup, Kangxi (1662-1722), with flared rim, on a moulded foot in the form of twisted branches, with applied boughs of flowering prunus.
Notes:
For illustrated examples of similar blanc de chine cups see Ayers, John (2016). Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (vol I), p.73 pl.112-125.
Traditionally, libation cups were used as communal drinking vessels at important ceremonial occasions. The prunus on this example represents the start of spring after a long cold winter.
