Sold Ceramics - Sold Famille Verte wares 1680-1725 - Tea, Coffee and Chocolate wares

Object 2011264

Cup

China

c.1700

Height 52 mm (2.04 inch), diameter of rim 80 mm (3.14 inch), diameter of footring 38 mm (1.50 inch)

Cup on footring, slightly everted rim with a lobbed edge. Covered with a light-brown (café au lait) glaze and decorated in famille verte enamels, with black and iron-red. The interior rim, wall and bottom in underglaze blue. Decorated with four groups of wide spreading flowering plants and birds in flight in between. Round the inner rim a border of zig-zag lines and on the interior wall four peony sprays in underglaze blue. On the bottom three flowering plants with flying insects. Marked on the base with the symbol mark, "Sacred Fungus", the symbol of longevity, immortality, in a double circle in underglaze blue.

These relatively large cups could be used for tea as well as coffee. The designs are well painted with attention to detail, so these cups are a good example of the high quality tea and coffee wares decorated in famille verte colours that were ordered by the Dutch from c.1700 onwards. (Jörg & Van Campen 1997, p.172)

Condition: A firing flaw with a short connected glaze hairline to the rim and some wear to the enamel.

References:

Jörg & Van Campen 1997, cat. 192

Jörg 2002/2, cat. 74

Jörg 2011/2, cat. 128,129,133 & 138

Price: Sold.