A RARE Chinese porcelain Doucai "narcissus" month cup. The c - Lot 49

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A RARE Chinese porcelain Doucai "narcissus" month cup. The c - Lot 49
A RARE Chinese porcelain Doucai "narcissus" month cup. The cup is finely enameled to the deep flaring sides with clusters of "narcissi" growing beside blue ornamental rocks, emblematic of the eleventh month of the calendar year. Month cups depicting seasonal flowers accompanied, represent a classic design of the Kangxi period. Very delicately potted, they are painted in the proper wucai palette of underglaze blue and overglaze enamels, which was devised in the Ming dynasty, but rarely used in the Qing, when the underglaze color was generally omitted. On these month cups the designs are generally sketched on the unglazed porcelain in a faint underglaze blue. Slight differences in size, colors, writing styles and marks between individual cups and different months suggest that even these cups may not have been produced as sets of twelve, but perhaps issued consecutively, as the year evolved, to be assembled at the end. With 6 character "Xuantong" mark in underglaze blue on the base, 20th Century. D : 6,2 cm, H : 5 cm. Very good condition, one tiny chips on the foot rim. (UV-checked).
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