Chinese Blue and White 'Lanca Characters' Stem Cup. The cup is decorated to the exterior with lanca characters divided by lotus scrolls above a band of lotus lappets, the spreading foot is painted with flower-heads above jewelled tassels and ruyi-heads, the interior with a stylized peony medallion within a double-line border repeated at the rim, the interior of the foot with a Qianlong six-character linear seal mark. {Height: 4 1/4 inches (10.8 cm)}. Property from a San Francisco Collection.