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趙從衍（1911-1999年）收藏
香港蘇富比1986年11月18日，編號102

Exhibition
Zhongguo mingtao riben xunhui zhan. Gangtai mingjia shoucang taoci jingpin [Exhibition of Famous Chinese Ceramics Touring
Japan. Fine Ceramics from Private Hong Kong and Taiwanese Collections], Nihonbashi Takashimaya, Tokyo, 1992, p. 174.

展覽
《中國名陶日本巡迴展•港台名家收藏陶瓷精品》，日本橋高島屋，東京，1992年，頁174

Catalogue Note
Compare a similar cup in the Sir Percival David Collection, now in the British Museum, London, published in Margaret
Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch’ing Monochrome in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, section 6, London,
1973, no. A593. A cup of the same form and glaze, but incised with a narrow band of archaistic dragons, is illustrated in John
Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, pl. 141. See also one presented with its cupstand, illustrated
in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pl. 240. For a similar example to the Shanghai
Museum set, but glazed in translucent green, see one illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum:
Monochrome Porcelain, vol. 37, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 154.

This cup boasts illustrious provenance, having previously been in the hands of two highly important collectors of Chinese art, H.M.
Knight and T.Y. Chao. The pair to this cup in the Knight Collection was also purchased by Chao in our Hong Kong rooms, 28th
November 1979, lot 327, and subsequently sold in the same rooms, 18th November 1986, lot 101.

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