Two iron-red and underglaze-blue cups Qianlong Seal Marks and Period

each cup with curved sides and a slightly everted mouth rim, the exterior decorated with four detached iron-red lotus blooms and underglaze-blue leaves, under a double-line in blue at the rim and above a single blue line at the straight foot, the interior left plain (2)

In good overall condition. The bases are slightly different diameters and the reign marks are not the same size.
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Cups of this design can be found with different reign marks from the Ming dynasty onwards. For the 15th century origin of this motif, compare a cup excavated from the late Chenghua stratum of the Imperial kilns at Jingdezhen and included in the exhibition A Legacy of Chenghua, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, cat.no. c95.

Qianlong mark and period cups have been sold at auction, including a pair in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th October 1991, lot 188; another pair in the same rooms, 20th November 1984, lot 392, and again 24th November 1987, lot 105.