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Title
Ceramic: cup
Description
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.
Source
Rewi Alley
Provenance
Part of collection Alley gave to Canterbury Museum during Museum director Roger Duff's trip to China in 1956.
Still Image Item Type Metadata
Physical Dimensions
35.75x85.33 mm (h x w)
Museum Ac. No.
C1956.310
Usage Rights
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Period
Qing Dynasty (1644-1911)
Collection
Citation
“Ceramic: cup,” China, Art and Cultural Diplomacy, accessed May 16, 2024, http://rewialleyart.nz/items/show/1144.