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A BLUE AND WHITE this delicately potted cup depicting flowering 清康熙 青花菊花圖詩文花神盃
‘CHRYSANTHEMUM’ ‘MONTH’ CUP chrysanthemums and butterflies, accompanied
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD by a complementary two-lined poem, 《大清康熙年製》款
exemplifies a classic design of the Kangxi
the finely potted sides rising in a subtle period. It represents the ninth month of the 題詩：
bell-shape from a straight foot, the exterior year, and would have originally been part of 千載白衣酒 一生青女香
delicately painted in underglaze blue with tall a set of twelve cups each depicting seasonal
chrysanthemum, the flowers in full bloom over flowers. Cups of this type were known to have 印文：
smaller blossoming flora, a spindly leafless been used for wine drinking at court during the 賞
plant emerging alongside, its knobby branches Kangxi period. the poem can be translated as: 來源
arcing over a rocky outcrop, three butterflies Qian zai bai yi jiu. Yi sheng qing nu xiang.
fluttering overhead, the opposite side with a ‘a thousand fills of wine drunk in a plain white 史蒂芬•瓊肯三世（1978年逝）收藏
poetic couplet followed by the seal mark shang robe. throughout the whole life fragrant like a
(‘appreciation’), the base with a six-character young woman.’
mark in underglaze blue within a double circle
height 1⅞ in., 4.7 cm Compare a full set of blue and white month
cups from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated
PROVENANCE in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Collection of stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). Palace Museum. Blue and White Porcelain with
Underglazed Red (III), hong Kong, 2000, pl. 71;
a ‘peony’ month cup sold at Christie’s hong
Kong, 27th november 2013; another sold in our
hong Kong rooms, 1st november 1994, lot 134;
and a third, also from the stephen Junkunc III
Collection, sold in these rooms, 12th september
2018, lot 109.
$ 20,000-30,000

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