Description
A RARE CHINESE IMPERIAL CORAL CUP
18TH CENTURY
The oval lobed body with a handle, inlaid in coral on a metal base with figures in a landscape between bands of key fret to the rim and foot, the interior with a silver liner and a paper label for the Burlington Fine Arts Club, together with a wood stand, 8cm. (2)
Provenance: from the collection of Professor J Norman Collie, FRS (1859-1942) and thence by descent.
Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club Exhibition of Chinese Art in 1915.
Cf. The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Treasures of the Imperial Court, Vol 57, pp.30-31, no.24 for a peach box and cover decorated in coral using a similar technique.
