Kangxi
The flaring vessel with lobed rim, decorated in relief in biscuit with a tiger seated amongst pine and rockwork with a dragon emerging from clouds above, the reverse with a deer and crane beside a blossoming prunus tree, the body covered in a sea-green glaze, the base glazed white and the foot unglazed.
14.5cm (5 3/4in) wide.
Footnotes
清康熙 青釉堆素盃
Provenance: Acquired from R & G McPherson Antiques, London, 2003
Published and Illustrated: M. White, Beasts at the Whites' House: A selection of ceramics from the Whites' House collection, vol.1, n.p., 2020, p.32
See a similar celadon-glazed libation cup sold at Christie's London, 10th May 2011, lot 309.