339.
A ‘BLANC DE CHINE’ CUP
Qing dynasty, Kangxi period, late 17th century
6 x 9 x 7 cm high
Provenance: Naples, Villa della Floridiana, Museo Duca di Martina, Placido de Sangro (1829-1891) collection.
inv. n. 3673.
This kind of cup had a great success in Europe already in the early eighteenth century, imitated by the Meissen factory around 1715 (Meißner Porzellan von 1710 bis zur Gegenwert, exhibition catalogue, Wien 1982, n. 3) and later by almost all the other European porcelain factories.
For a group of similar cups in the British Royal collection, see J. Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty The Queen, 2 voll. London 2016, nn. 111-125.
