Lotus Leaf Cup or Water Dropper
1907-1944
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Lotus Leaf Cup or Water Dropper
1907-1944
Physical Qualities
Porcelain with green, yellow, and brown enamel, 5 1/2 × 15 1/2 × 11 in. (14 × 39.4 × 27.9 cm.)
Credit Line
The Baltimore Museum of Art
Object Number
2016.250
In the form of an elongated cluster of folded lotus leaves, with a hollow stem at the broad rear of the cup and the front leaves drawn to a wide, flattened point. The stem is a short hollow tube, glazed brown; the overlapping leaves are green; the central seeds are yellow. There are three small firing spurs on the bottom.
Hong Kong Museum of Art, "Monochrome Ceramics of the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties," 8/2-10.4.1977, pl. 33; for a pair of waterdroppers described as "Violet-glazed Peony Flower Waterdroppers," measuring 4.9 H x 15 L cm., and dated to the Kangxi Period.
Louise Allison Cort and Jan Stuart, "Joined Colors Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain," Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1993, no 67, p. 141; Cup molded in form of a pink peony flower with light green hollow stem, 20 cm. L; dated 1907.
Louise Allison Cort and Jan Stuart, "Joined Colors Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain," Washington, D.C.: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, 1993, no 67, p. 141; Cup molded in form of a pink peony flower with light green hollow stem, 20 cm. L; dated 1907.
