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A FINE BLUE AND WHITE ‘BIRD AND ᪺㢫᢬ 㤎⩈ᖺᖬ⩈㲄ॲⳊ♄⦦㉛↛
FLOWER’ CUP
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735) Ϝᬜ
The thinly potted cup is delicately painted to the exterior 㲞ᳰ⼖༛ᬘ卿 ჺ ᝲ ᚚ卿ᐽ৅ ⽚
with two pairs of birds perched on loquat trees, the interior
᫉⎷⅏≁ཎႛ卿㬪Ɽ⎉ⰰ᳖㪿Ჶ὞卿ᄓ㛑㬪Ɽᝧ㫐ᙹᡨǸഌᚺᎰࢇჺㅳǹ
with a stylised double-vajra enclosing lanca characters. The
ڱᏤ᪪卿ἃ㫇᫈໶⚨⁞ዪ֎Ꮀࢇ໶⚨Ꮢהǯஇ⛁ᘢ༈ࢷ⁒㩴⻦ݦ։Ꮀࢇ
countersunk base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua
㬪Ɽ⎷卿ཨ༿ࣿ⡠㱈ம⯝ទ⎾⏟ऱ卿ⶬ㢙ᙻ ჺझ࢈߅‸ǶᎰࢇ≢
reign mark in a double square.
଍⁞ཿஎ㢙Ƿ卿எ ࣿ ǯ㊃ཿ㈇Քࡺᑐݦ։ऱ⡠㱈⎏ૃ㬬᪪⎷卿㇦
3¬ in. (9.3 cm.) diam., box
߿ᔘᝧ卿எ ࣿ 卿ज㇦᫉≢଍৅♎ᇖᚺԋឆལӬ⏜᳅ईႽ⎑੧ዴ卿
HK$400,000-600,000 US$52,000-77,000 ᫓Ԝ჎ᙲǯ
PROVENANCE #SJBO 4 .D&MOFZ Ⅷ⻦Ӭ։ऱ᪪㫇᫈⎷卿ज㏱ᬘ㖅卿 ჺཿ㈇ᙻ࠼ᑣ
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28 April 1992, lot 101 ഌ⣠അߧՌ⻱ワ㱦Ƕ1PSDFMBJO PG )JHI 2JOHǷ卿எ ⽚ǯ
This delicate cup, with its thin potting and soft tones of cobalt blue, is
inspired by prototypes from the Chenghua reign, such as two cups of
identical size and design of Chenghua mark and period, in the National
Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special
Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua Porcelain Ware, Taipei, 2003, nos. 60 and 61.
In the same exhibition there are also two Jiajing-marked cups with the
same design, ibid, nos. 62 and 63.
Compare to an identical Yongzheng cup from the Brian S. McElney
Collection, illustrated in Porcelain of the High Qing Porcelain of the High
Qing, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983, no. 18.

interior
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