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A PAIR OF LEMON YELLOW-ENAMELLED WINE CUPS
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE-BLUE
WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)
The cups are of deep tapering form with a slightly everted rim and are
supported on a short ring foot. They are covered to the exterior with a
bright lemon yellow enamel and the interiors and bases are applied with a
transparent glaze.
3⅜ in. (8.6 cm.) diam. (2)
£30,000-50,000 US$40,000-65,000
€35,000-58,000
PROVENANCE:
Private English Collection, formerly in a private collection in France, most
of which was purchased in Paris during the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by
descent to the present owner. (marks)

A Yongzheng mark and period lemon-yellow cup sold at Christie's London,
15 May 2018, lot 128; another pair of lemon-yellow-enamelled wine cups with
Yongzheng marks sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 October 2003, lot 702;
and 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 清雍正 檸檬黃釉杯一對 雙圈六字楷書款
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 來源:
Catalogue, no. 128. A pair of yellow cups with four-character Yongzheng
marks, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated 英國私人珍藏, 法國私人舊藏, 大部分於1960年代及1970
by Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, 年代在巴黎所購,家傳至今
1978, pl. 59a, no. 79.

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