Bell-shaped cup with Chinese figures, dragons and flower sprays and bottom molded in the shape of flower petals, Bell-shaped porcelain cup with scalloped edge, painted in underglaze blue. The lower part of the wall is modeled in petal-shaped compartments containing Chinese men, women (long lines) and boys (fools), above it a band with boxes containing flower sprays (peony, lotus, prunus) and dragons. On the bottom two dragons between clouds, the inner border with flower sprays in boxes. Two chips and two cracks in the edge. Blue and white, Jean Theodore Royer, anonymous, China, c. 1680 - c. 17

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Size: 4887px × 4887px
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Photo credit: © Gibon Art / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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