Each cup of deep side rising from a short foot ring, the mouth potted with petal-like pattern and the body decorated in an iron-red glaze with lotus blossom petals, the interior, and base glazed white withsix-character Kangxi seal. D:8cm, H:7.4cm Provenance: Prominent Canadian family collection of British decent items acquired c1950-1975. Further provenance: Estate of the late Harry Geoffrey Beasley (1881-1939) aBritish anthropologist and curator of Cranmore Ethnographical Museum.