Bidspirit auction | Rare Chinese Export Verte Imari

Rare Chinese Export Verte Imari Goblet - Chinese export verte Imari porcelain goblet, Kangxi ca. 1710-20. Of tapering conical form above a short, knopped stem on a spreading circular foot. Decorated with two mon among trailing flowering branches suspended from a herringbone band. After a European glass form. Illustrated in Howard & Ayers, ”China for the West, ” Vol. I, pg. 140, no. 119 (left). Provenance: The Collection of Mr. Basil and the Hon. Mrs. Nellie Ionides, Buxted Park, Sussex; Sotheby's, London, 18 February 1964, Lot 275; Sotheby's, New York, ”Important Chinese Export Porcelain and Chinese Works of Art from the Collection of the Late Mildred R. and Rafi Y. Mottahedeh, ” 19 October 2000, Lot 147. Exhibition: Virginia Museum, 1981-2. Height: 5 in x diameter: 2 3/4 in. Condition: There are large restorations throughout. It appears that the cup was in many pieces and put back together. Light wear to the footrim. Three small areas with losses to the overspray along the interior; one loss to the overspray along the exterior.