Page 128 - Fine Chinese Art Christies London May 2018

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE UK COLLECTION (LOTS 128-135)
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A LEMON-YELLOW ENAMELLED WINE CUP
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 清雍正 檸檬黃釉小盃 雙圈六字楷書款
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
來源: 英國私人珍藏
The thinly potted rounded sides rise from a short tapered ring foot. The
exterior is evenly covered with a bright lemon-yellow enamel and the interior
and base are applied with a transparent glaze.
3 in. (7.5 cm.) diam.
£20,000-30,000 $29,000-42,000
€23,000-34,000

PROVENANCE
From a private collection in the UK.

A pair of lemon-yellow-enamelled wine cups with Yongzheng marks sold
in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 October 2003, lot 702; another pair in our
London rooms, 4 November 2008, lot 195; another pair from the Paul and
Helen Bernat Collection, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 15 November
1988, lot 59. A single cup from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, was included in
the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong
Kong Museum of Art, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 128. Another
pair of yellow cups with four-character Yongzheng marks, in the Museum
of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Chinese
Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, 1978, pl. 59a, no. 79.

(mark)

126 Other fees apply in addition to the hammer price – see Section D of our Conditions of Sale at the back of this Catalogue