A pair of Chinese blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers A pair of Chinese blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers A pair of Chinese blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers A pair of Chinese blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers A pair of Chinese blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers

A pair of Chinese blue and white twin-handled chocolate cups and covers

Reference: ART1004109

Each cup is affixed with two shaped handles, each interior is decorated with a peony blossom, the exterior decorated with eight lotus-shaped panels enclosing a winding flowering vine. The covers are similarly decorated and are surmounted by a lotus bud finial. The bases each with a conch shell mark in a double circle.

Catalogue note: Compare a similar cup without handles in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated in Rose Kerr and Luisa E. Mengoni, "Chinese Export Ceramics", London, 2011, pp. 26-27, pl. 23.