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VARIOUS PROPERTIES 楁㷗Ἓ⢓⼿炻1998⸜11㚰3㖍炻㉵⑩946嘇

3101 䙫忂橼曺剙Ḽ⼑䲳梦炻ᶨ朊丒㯜ẁ剙炻側朊曺剙㚠烉ˬ㗍桐
⺬䌱Ἦ㶭㘅炻⣄㚰ⅴ㲊ᶲ⣏⟌˭炻⯦晐䭮橼ˬ岆˭㕡⌘ˤ
A FAMILLE VERTE MONTH CUP ⸽曺剙㚠ˬ⣏㶭⹟䅁⸜墥˭㤟㚠㫦ˤ

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A
DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The cup is thinly potted with deep rounded sides rising towards
a gently flared rim. The exterior is delicately enamelled with
narcissus and a single long stemmed rose emerging from a garden
rock. The reverse is inscribed with a poetic couplet termining
with a seal mark, shang, ‘appreciation’.
2 ƒ in. (6.5 cm.) diam., box

HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1998, lot 946

The couplet can be translated as:
As the spring breeze brushes past the jade-like blossoms, the clear
morning arrives;
The night moon skips on the waves to pass beyond the great causeway.

There appears to be some debate on whether the narcissus depicts
the eleventh or twelfth lunar month. Similar examples in the Percival
David Foundation, exhibited at the British Museum, London, and the
Hong Kong Museum of Art are both designated as the eleventh month,
respectively illustrated by R. E. Scott, ‘Fine Porcelain and Delicate
Brushwork’, Orientations, November 1986, figs. 2-2b; and the other
included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter’s Palette - Qing
Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15.

Compare a very similar example formerly in the Paul and Helen
Bernat and Jingguantang Collections, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
3 November 1996, lot 583; one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 April
2002, lot 623; and another one at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014,
lot 3314.

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