Ceramic: cup

One Yixing ceramic cup with a large ring-shaped handle and a wide fluted rim tapering gradually to a narrower base. Cup exterior is chocolate brown and presents incised inscription: 玉川吟興 陽羨德x主人付刻. Cup interior is glazed blue-white with a prominent crackle effect.

Rewi Alley

Part of collection Alley gave to Canterbury Museum during Museum director Roger Duff's trip to China in 1956.

35.75x85.33 mm (h x w)

C1956.310

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Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)