5. Underglaze blue porcelain cup
Ming dynasty, Yongle period, 1403 - 1424
Diameter: 9.1cm
Formerly in various collections, including that of Richard Bryant Hobart (1885 - 1963) of Cambridge, Massachusetts, this cup featured in the famous 1949 Exhibition of Blue-decorated Porcelain of the Ming Dynasty which travelled to Philadelphia Museum of Art and to The Art Institute of Chicago.
Such cups from the Yongle period are very rare. Two related cups are in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, one decorated with flower sprays and another with lingzhi fungus. Another, with lingzhi fungus, was excavated from the Yongle strata at Dongmentou, Zhushan, Jingdezhen in 1994.
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