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AN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND COPPER-RED ‘EIGHT EMBLEMS’
CUP
Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period
Delicately potted, the rounded sides rising from a short foot, the
exterior painted in cobalt-blue with a meandering leafy stem bearing
eight quatrefoil flower blooms, each supporting a ribboned bajixiang
emblem outlined in copper-red, framed by an underglaze-blue double
line below the mouthrim and a single line to the footring, the interior left
undecorated, the countersunk base inscribed in underglaze blue with a
six-character reign mark, box.
6.5cm (2 1/2in) diam. (2).
HKD400,000 - 600,000
US$51,000 - 76,000
清雍正 青花釉裏紅八寶紋小杯
青花「大清雍正年製」楷書雙圈款

The present cup is notable for its bajixiang design outlined in copper- 杯圓唇，腹圓鼓斜收於圈足，口沿下繪兩道青花弦紋，在下繪青花連
red which also provides a stunning contrast with the silhouette forms 枝靈芝紋，上托釉裡紅細筆勾勒佛教八寶，腹底圈足之間繪青花弦紋
of the flower blooms on which they rest. The exquisite size is close to 一匝，杯底書「大清雍正年製」楷書款。
the small wine cup (‘jiouyuan’) mentioned in the Qing Court records,
while its design derives from Ming dynasty Chenghua period blue 此杯小巧輕盈，接近清宮檔案記載之酒元，即小酒杯。此杯紋樣及杯
and white or doucai decorated prototypes. The Neiwufu Zaobanchu 型仿自明成化青花或鬥彩小杯。乾隆四年（公元1739年）活計檔記
huoji dang [Archives of the Workshop of the Imperial Household 載太監胡世傑交出成窯青花白地酒元一對配座，見《清宮瓷器檔案全
Department] records that in the 4th year of Qianlong’s reign (1739), the 集》，北京，2007年，卷1，頁412；景德鎮明代御窯廠遺址出土一
Eunuch Hu Shijie delivered a pair of Chenghua blue and white small 件青花「八寶供」紋小杯，本件紋樣即同此杯一脈相承，見《成窯遺
wine cups with stands, see Qing gong ciqi dang’an quanji [Complete 珍：景德鎮珠山出土成華官窯瓷器》，香港，1993年，編號C93；
Records on Porcelain from the Qing Court], Beijing, 2007, vol.1, 台北故宮藏兩件鬥彩八寶紋小杯亦是同類設計，見《成化瓷器特展圖
p.412; see also a blue and white ‘eight emblems’ cup excavated in the 錄》，台北，1976年，編號38及39。
Jingdezhen Ming dynasty Imperial kiln site, which has the same motif
as the present cup, illustrated in A Legacy of Chenghua, Hong Kong,
1993, no.C93; compare with another two cups included in the Special
Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei,
1976, cat. no.38, depicting the eight emblems surmounting a leafy
scroll, and cat. no.39, which portrays the Buddhist emblems raised on
canopies issuing from a leafy scroll.

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