A Chinese doucai ‘lotus and lanca’ cup, the gently rounded sides rising from a short foot to a slightly everted rim, painted with eight lanca characters resting on lotus blooms of contrasting colours, issuing from a continuous leafy scroll, above a border of ruyi lappets at the base, the six-character mark in underglaze-blue within a double square, broken and restuck, 7.2cm, Chenghua mark and period, extremely rare, one of only four known to exist Provenance: Orientique Gallery, Hong Kong For a similar doucai cup, see A Legacy of Chenghua, Imperial Porcelain of the Chenghua Reign Excavated from Zushan Jingdezhen, Tsui Museum of Art, 1993, p. 291, C101. 中国明成化斗彩莲花梵文杯，柔和圆边自浅足升至轻微外翻的口沿，饰以八个梵文字符于颜色对比鲜明的盛开莲花上，莲花下缠着连续的叶子涡卷纹饰，其下接底部如意垂饰的边缘，杯底双方形内饰以釉下青花成化六字款，破过黏上，7.2厘米，极为罕见，为已知现存四件之一 来源：香港吉庆堂画廊 类似的斗彩杯，请参见徐氏艺术馆于1993年出版的《成窑遗珍——景德镇珠山出土成化官窑瓷器》，第291页，C101