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PROPERTY OF A DISTINGUISHED COLLECTOR 清康熙 五彩梅花花神盃
A RARE WUCAI ‘PRUNUS’ MONTH CUP 《大清康熙年製》款
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
此盃應為十一月，巧畫早梅，主幹粗壯，枝條多瘤，
finely potted with deep rounded sides supported on a short 開點點白花，細飾黃蕊紅萼。一旁初冒新枝，別有水
straight foot and rising to a flared rim, one side rendered
in the wucai palette, a prunus tree’s two gnarled branches 仙藏石後，另一旁則繪幼樹花開。詩題：「素艷雪凝
bearing white blossoms with yellow stamens and dark red 樹，清香風滿枝。」
calyxes, with some small shoots rising from the ground,
a tall rock behind, a clump of narcissus and another low
rock to one side, and a younger flowering tree on the other,
representing the eleventh month, the reverse inscribed with
a poem relating to the flowering tree in front, followed by the
seal shang (‘to appreciate’), the base inscribed in underglaze
blue with a six-character reign mark within a double circle
6.4 cm, 2½ in.

HK$ 400,000-600,000
US$ 51,000-76,500

The poem on the present cup can be translated as follows:
Simple beauty like a tree frozen with snow.
Branches moving in the wind full of clear fragrance.

Mark

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