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A FINE AND VERY RARE PAIR OF SEPIA-
ENAMELLED WINE CUPS

YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE
WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Each is thinly potted and delicately painted, one with two scholars S & G. Gump炻冲慹Ⱉ炻1920⸜ẋ军1930⸜ẋ
伶⚳ᷕ大悐䥩Ṣ䍵啷
in a mountainous river landscape, the other with pavilions on a 䲸䲬Ἓ⢓⼿炻2010⸜3㚰26㖍炻㉵⑩1438嘇

river bank. The interior of each cup is decorated with two small 晵㬋㛅⡐⼑㕤㈨埻ᶲ䨩䟜Ḯ⹟䅁㛅暨ẍ䵈⼑≈⚢ᷳ旸⇞炻⎗
㍉䓐举䳘䘬䫮妠䚜㍍丒䔓炻⡐刚㽫㶉↮㖶炻℟㚱ᷕ⚳㯜⡐䔓
flowers decorated in the famille rose palette. 䘬喅埻㓰㝄炻ἧ⼿晵㬋⡐⼑ἄ⑩㚜≈層役㔯Ṣシ嵋ˤ

2 ¿ in. (5.5 cm.) diam., box (2) 䙫⼊䱦ⶏ炻䙫⽫ẍ䰱⼑丒句剙ℑ㛝炻⢾⡩ẍ⡐⼑↮丒㰇Ⱉṕ
况⚾冯檀⢓奨㘗⚾炻䔓朊拗句㚱农炻㥳⚾䔷⭮⼿橼炻⡐刚役
HK$3,500,000-4,500,000 US$460,000-580,000 慵怈㶉炻㟤婧檀晭炻℞㧡叱溆㝻冯怈Ⱉ庽⊦廒⹻㈨㱽炻冯⊿
Ṕ㓭⭖㶭⭖冲啷㛐䲳慱⡐⼑Ⱉ㯜⚾䫮䫺䔓シ䚠役炻⍫侫㓭⭖
PROVENANCE ⌂䈑昊啷㔯䈑䍵⑩⣏䲣˪暄慱⼑–䳈ᶱ⼑˫炻楁㷗炻2009⸜炻
枩290–291炻⚾239ˤ⎎⎗⍫侫ᶨẞ晵㬋⡐⼑Ⱉ㯜⚾⮷䙫炻䁢
S & G. Gump, San Francisco, 1920s-1930s Paul⍲Helen Bernatằ⃟冲啷炻⼴㋸岰Ḱ㲊⢓枻伶埻棐炷棐啷
An American mid-Western private collection 䶐嘇 BMFA 59.24炸烊Paul⍲Helen Bernatằ⃟冲啷⎎ᶨ䚠Ụ
Sold at Christie’s New York, 26 March 2010, lot 1438 ἳ炻1990⸜11㚰13㖍㕤楁㷗喯⭴㭼㉵岋炻㉵⑩25嘇ˤ

A new type of black enamel was developed during the Yongzheng
period at imperial kilns in Jingdezhen under the supervision of Tang
Ying, which unlike its 17th century predecessor that was matt and
needed to be ‘fixed’ by a layer of clear green enamel, was glossy
in texture and was used to great effect by the ceramic painters to
simulate ink paintings, as seen on the current examples.

Compare to a similar cup formerly in the collections of Paul and Helen
Bernat, and Goldschmidt, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13 November
1990, lot 25; another similarly decorated Yongzheng cup, also formerly
in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, gifted to the Museum of
Fine Arts, Boston (acquisition no. BMFA 59.24); and a faux-bois
grisaille-decorated brush pot similarly painted with a continuous river
landscape in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous
Enamelled Porcelains, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2009,
pp. 290-1, no. 239.

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