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Source Description
Stemmed cups resembling wine vessels used at court figure prominently on Chinese Buddhist altars, where they are placed before devotional images and filled with water. A band of heart-shaped motifs on the stems of these cups evokes the head of the curved scepter carried by Buddhist deities and symbolic of monastic authority. On the bowl of each cup, Tibetan letters mounted above lotus blossoms are surrounded by coiling leaf patterns.
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Document identity
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6213
label
Stem Cup
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title
Stem Cup
description
Stemmed cups resembling wine vessels used at court figure prominently on Chinese Buddhist altars, where they are placed before devotional images and filled with water. A band of heart-shaped motifs on the stems of these cups evokes the head of the curved scepter carried by Buddhist deities and symbolic of monastic authority. On the bowl of each cup, Tibetan letters mounted above lotus blossoms are surrounded by coiling leaf patterns.
provenance
Acquired by William T. or Henry Walters, Baltimore; by bequest to Walters Art Museum, 1931.
date
1736-1795 (Qing dynasty (1644-1911))
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en
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Ceramics
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H: 4 1/8 in. (10.5 cm)
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Chinese
style
qinghua ware
inscriptions
Reign mark of the Qianlong emperor; Tibetan letters
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Qing (1644-1911)
reign
Qianlong (1736-1795)
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porcelain with underglaze blue
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6238
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2514
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