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A YELLOW AND GREEN-ENAMELLED A RARE WUCAI ‘PRUNUS TREE’ A full set of month cups, in the Palace
‘DRAGON’ BOWL MONTH CUP Museum, Bejing, is illustrated in Kangxi,
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period Kangxi six-character mark and of the period Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the
Finely enamelled in emerald-green around Thinly potted with flared rim and straight foot, Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989,
the exterior with two five-clawed dragons in exquisitely painted in blue and enamelled p.65, pl.48. A set from the Sir Percival David
pursuit of a flaming pearl below a scrolling colours around the exterior with a gnarled Collection and now in the British Museum,
leafy border, the interior with a shou symbol, prunus tree issuing white blossoms amidst London, is published in the Illustrated
all reserved on the lemon-yellow ground. rocks and clumps of narcissus, the reverse Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares in the
10.1cm (4in) diam. inscribed with a poem. 6.6cm (2 5/8in) diam. Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art,
London, 1991, pl.815; another in the Idemitsu
£2,000 - 3,000 £3,000 - 5,000 Museum of Art, Tokyo, is published in Chinese
CNY18,000 - 27,000 CNY27,000 - 45,000 Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo,
1987, pl.221.
清康熙 黃地綠彩雲龍戲珠紋盌 清康熙 五彩花神盃 Compare with a very similar ‘prunus tree’
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 month cup, Kangxi, which was sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2013,
Provenance: a distinguished English private Provenance: an English private collection lot 3092. See another similar example of a
collection, acquired in these Rooms on 10 ‘prunus tree’ month cup, Kangxi, which was
July 2006, lot 139, and thence by descent 來源： 英國私人收藏 sold at Christie’s New York,
14-15 September 2017, lot 1223.
來源：顯貴英國私人收藏；於2006年7月10 Month cups depicting seasonal flowers
日購自倫敦邦瀚斯，拍品139號，並由後人 accompanied by pertinent two-lined poems
保存迄今 represent a classic design of the Kangxi
period. This delicately potted piece depicts
A pair of yellow and green-enamelled ‘dragon’ the prunus tree of the first month, and the
bowls, Kangxi six-character marks of the poem reads and can be translated as follows:
period, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong on Su yan xue ning shu, qing xiang feng man zhi.
7 April 2015, lot 3121. ‘Simple beauty like a tree frozen with snow.
Branches moving in the wind full of clear
fragrance.’

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