Page 400 - 2020 Sept Important Chinese Art Sotheby's NYC Asia Week

9/2/2020 Important Chinese Art | Sotheby's

Impo rtant Chinese Art
New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 793

A FAMILLE -VERTE 'LI BAI' CUP, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Estimate: 6,000 - 8,000 USD

A FAMILLE-VERTE 'LI BAI' CUP
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 五彩李白酒醉圖詩文方盃

of square section with flaring sides, two sides of the exterior brightly enameled with a scene featuring the famous Tang dynasty
poet, the first depicting the scholar seated under a tree leaning over a qin with a wine pot and ladle in the foreground, the other
portraying the scholar asleep, slumped against a large, precariously tilting wine jar, divided by two panels with complementary
two-line poetic inscriptions in black enamel with gilt and iron-red literati-style seal marks

Width 3¼ in., 8.3 cm

Provenance
Collection of Nellie (1883-1962) and Basil (1884-1950) Ionides.
Marchant, London, 2004.
Italian Private Collection.

來源
Nellie (1883-1962) 及 Basil (1884-1950) Ionides 伉儷收藏
Marchant，倫敦，2004年
意大利私人收藏

Exhibition

https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2020/important-chinese-art?locale=en 400/435