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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘FLORAL’ HANDLED WINE 清雍正 青花仙芝花卉紋雙耳盃
CUP, MARK AND PERIOD OF YONGZHENG 《大清雍正年製》款
the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within
a double circle, wood stand, Japanese wood box (4)
Length 3½ in., 8.8 cm 來源：
山中商會，倫敦，1920年代
PROVENANCE 日本私人收藏
Yamanaka & Co., London, 1920s.
Japanese Private Collection.
This exquisite cup with its crisp butterfly handles and tiers of
lingzhi and floral blooms, showcases the fine reproduction of
classic early Ming porcelain at the Qing imperial kiln during
the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor. For the prototype of
this design, see a Xuande mark and period cup recovered
from the waste heaps of the imperial kiln factory in
Jingdezhen, and included in the exhibition Imperial Porcelain
of the Yongle and Xuande Periods Excavated from the Site of
the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong Museum
of Art, Hong Kong, 1989, cat. no. 47.
Compare a closely related Yongzheng mark and period
blue and white handled cup in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, illustrated in Chen Runmin, Gugong bowuyuan
cang Qing Yongzheng qinghua ciqi / The Palace Museum’s
Collection of Blue and White Porcelain from Yongzheng
Period of Qing Dynasty, Beijing, 2017, pl.31; another
illustrated in Mayuyama. Seventy Years, vol. I, Tokyo,
1976, pl. 1063. See also a yellow-ground example from the
Barbara and Lester Levy Collection, sold in these rooms,
19th September 2023, lot 515.
⊖ $ 50,000-70,000

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