wine cup (cup (narcotics & intoxicants: drinking))

Small porcelain wine cup with curved sides, flared rim, low foot and recessed base. Decorated with cobalt blue pigment painted under clear glaze. A landscape scene is painted on the exterior body with a pine tree and rocks. A mark on base reads: 'ruo shen zhen cang'. Blue and white cups with the same mark were first produced in the Kangxi period, 1662-1722, but the character 'zhen' is written in a different way. This cup is possibly a later copy of a Kangxi original, which would be larger and where the mark would be encircled by a ring.

object
MUSEUM NUMBER
nn1742
PLACE
COLLECTION
MEASUREMENTS
overall: 26 mm x 44 mm
MATERIAL/TECHNIQUE
porcelain; mineral pigment; glaze
CATEGORY
Anthropology: Ethnography
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