CHINA - Lot 10

CHINA Large porcelain goblet after a European model with a slightly gadrooned wall, decorated in blue underglaze with foliage and flowers. Leaf mark on reverse. Kangxi period (1661-1722), circa 1690-1700. H. 15.5 cm. Restored chips. Bibliography : M. Butler, M.Medley, S. Little, Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain from the Butler Family Collection, fig. 129 for a goblet of this type; See also C. le Corbeiller, China Trade Porcelain: Patterns of Exchange, New York 1974, p. 30, no. 11. These types of chalice may have been commissioned by the Jesuits, who had been resident in Macau since the 1540s, when the provincial government of Guangdong allowed the Portuguese to settle there as compensation for their help in the fight against pirates who infested the coast and plundered towns and villages. At the time, China had no navy. The chalice, copied from a European metal form, was probably used during Catholic mass. This lot is a temporary import. The buyer must pay import duties of 5.5% (6.6% incl. VAT) of the hammer price, in addition to the usual fees. These additional costs may be refunded to the buyer on presentation of customs documents for export outside the European Union.