A thinly potted cup with fluted bell-shaped sides set over a straight foot, painted to the exterior with birds and flowers in polychrome enamels over a café-au-lait-glazed ground, the interior centered with fluttering butterfly surrounded by floral sprays, the saucer similarly decorated, the base marked.
Christmas Gift Ideas, Qing Polychrome
Cafè au Lait Wucai Cup and Saucer
Kangxi Period (1662-1722)
Porcelain, overglaze enamels.
Jingdezhen, Jiangxi Province, China.
Cup: D:8.6cm x H:5cm,
Saucer: D:13cm