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AN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE AND FINE Small cups of this type are extremely rare, 㶭晵㬋ġġġ䘥慱曰剅䲳⮷䙫
WHITE-GLAZED ‘LINGZHI’ CUP this form more often having been decorated
with anhua incised dragons or covered in ˪⣏㶭晵㬋⸜墥˫㫦
YONGZHENG MARK AND PERIOD
lemon yellow or other enamels. For a dragon- Ը๕
delicately potted, the steep, tapering sides decorated cup in the Palace Museum, Beijing, ⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷
rising to a slightly ß aring rim, the exterior see Geng Baochang, ed., Gugong Bowuyuan
applied with exquisitely incised white-slip cang Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Porcelains from
the Qing dynasty imperial kilns in the Palace
decoration of a delicately meandering stem
issuing leafy sprays and four lingzhi heads Museum collection], Beijing, 2005, vol. I,
wreathed by curling leaves, the recessed part 2, pl. 8. See also a slightly larger pair of
base inscribed with a six-character mark in undecorated white cups from the Meiyintang
Collection sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 7th
underglaze blue
Diameter 1¾ in., 4.4 cm April 2011, lot 26.
PROVENANCE
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978).
$ 40,000-60,000
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