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A DOUCAI ‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ CUP
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD

with steep rounded sides rising from a straight foot,
delicately painted around the exterior with four
medallions of chrysanthemum flowers, the blooms
in iron-red, yellow and purple around cross-hatched
stamens, set against densely painted leaves and buds,
divided by paired lotus sprays in similar palette, the base
with a six-character reign mark within a double square in
underglaze blue
Diameter 7.3 cm, 2⅞ in.
The design on this little cup is based on a Ming dynasty
Chenghua prototype, compare, for example, a doucai bowl
excavated from the waste heaps of the Ming Imperial
kilns at Jingdezhen, included in the exhibition A Legacy of
Chenghua, the Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, cat.
no. C119.
Compare also with a similar Yongzheng cup, sold in
these rooms, 29th October 1991, lot 212, now in the
Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Ye Peilang, Beauty
of Ceramics: Gems of Doucai, vol. 6, Taipei, 1993, pl. 102.
A pair of cups of this design from the collection of Edward
T. Chow, was sold in these rooms, 25th November 1980,
lot 132. Compare also with another cup of this size and
design, sold in Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 25th April 2004, lot
207.

£ 80,000-120,000
HK$ 785,000-1,180,000 US$ 100,000-150,000
清雍正 鬪彩團菊紋盃
《大清雍正年製》款

Mark

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