A CIRCULAR PORCELAIN BLUE AND WHITE CUPMARK OF CHONGZHEN BUT POSSIBLY LATER With flat base to interior and flaring sides, decorated on the exterior under a single line border with four figures in a landscape on one side ending with a stylised bank of clouds, the interior is undecorated and the base with a six character mark of Chongzhen, with wood stand7cm diameter Provenance: Sotheby's, Charles G. Russell sale, 6th June, 1935, lot 11, as recorded in the RHRP China Ledger as C375Compare with two similar cups at the Museum of East Asian Art in Bath (accession number BATEA : 1478) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (accession number 59.70.12). The present lot was published in Soame Jenyns (1959) Later Chinese Porcelain, Plate 1C., pp 18, which Jenyns considered it to be mark and period, and further argued that 'these pieces have always found favour in Japanese eyes...and the mark of Ch'ung Ch'eng is rarer still'.大明崇禎年制款青花人物圖小杯拍品來源：英國帕瑪家族顯赫私人收藏，家族檔案編號C375，1935年6月6日購自倫敦蘇富比Charles G. Russell專場，11號拍品出版信息：Soame Jenyns，1959年，《中國晚期陶瓷器》，圖版1C

not obvious damage