A FINE BLUE AND WHITE 'LANCA' STEM CUP SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF QIANLONG |

finely potted with steep sides rising from a flat base to a flared rim raised on a tall hollow splayed stem foot, the exterior painted in various cobalt tones with eight lança characters, each above a stylised lotus bloom borne on leafy tendrils bearing curled acanthus leaves, the underside with a band of petal lappets, the splayed foot detailed with ruyi-heads suspending interlinked tassels beneath a raised rib of stylised flowers and leaves, the interior well with an intricate flowerhead within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the underside of the foot with a six-character seal mark written in a horizontal line

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20th May 1981, lot 746.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8th October 2013, lot 3024.

Chinese Ceramics Tang to Qing, Marchant, London, 2014, cat. no. 44.

good condition
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A closely related example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Blue and White Ware of the Ch’ing Dynasty, bk. II, Hong Kong, 1968, pl. 30; another was included in the exhibition Qing Mark and Period Blue and White, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1984, cat. no. 29; and a third in the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, Toronto, Canada, is illustrated in Patricia F. Ferguson, Cobalt Treasures: The Robert Murray Bell and Ann Walker Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, Toronto, 2003, pl. 30.