BFE 18 A pair of blue and white cups and saucers

清康熙 青花山水河景杯碟一對 《美玉雅製》款

Early Kangxi, ca 1670

The thinly potted cups and saucers are painted in the 'Master of the Rocks' style, the saucers with a central medallion of a river landscape showing a horseman, the other side of the river shows a thatched hut on a promontory. The cobalt blue is executed in several shades of blue enriched with 'blobby dots'. The cavetto is painted with further horsemen wearing hats alternating with trees below a narrow border of pine needles and 'blobby dots' below the rim. The reverse is painted with two branches of bamboo. The cups are decorated on the outside with a similar design of horsemen in two rows, the interior with a central landscape. Cups and saucers have a four-character mark mei yu ya zhi ('elegantly made like beautiful jade')
Diameter of saucers 9.4 cm

A pair of saucers are illustrated in Richard S. Kilburn, Transitional Wares and their Forerunners, Hong Kong, 1981, No. 103

BFE 18 清康熙 青花山水河景杯碟一對 《美玉雅製》款
時代：清 康熙早期，約1670年。
特徵：體薄，碟子中央描繪山樹河流景觀與一位騎馬的人。杯子外側亦有相似圖案。杯碟底部均書「美玉雅製」。
尺寸：茶碟直徑9.4公分。