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27 Provenance 來源: Sidney Ernest Kennedy Collection, no.156
A yellow-glazed ‘dragons’ cup (one of a pair)
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period Christie’s London, 21 June 1916, lot 100
Finely potted, the rounded sides rising from a tall foot, the exterior F.C.Harrison Collection
covered in a lemon-yellow glaze, moulded with a narrow band of Bluett & Sons Ltd., A Collection of Old Chinese Monochrome
dragons around the body in low relief, two confronted chilong forming Porcelains, June 1925, no.33
the delicately potted handles, wood stand. Captain A.T.Warre Collection, no.56, acquired from Bluett & Sons Ltd.
7.5cm (3in) wide (2). on 8 June 1925
Mr and Mrs George Warre Collection
£3,000 - 5,000 CNY30,000 - 50,000 S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London (label)
HK$38,000 - 63,000 Roy Davids Collection, acquired on 20 September 2010

清康熙 黃釉龍紋雙龍耳小杯 青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款 A similar example, Kangxi period, is illustrated in Selected Porcelain
of the Flourishing Qing Dynasty at the Palace Museum, Hong Kong,
1994, p.135, no.98. Other similar examples in the Percival David
Foundation of Chinese Art are now in the British Museum, published
by M.Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Ch’ing Monochromes
in the Percival Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1973, nos.503-4
and 567 (no.567 also with a saucer).

The pair to the present cup, also formerly in the collections of Sidney
Ernest Kennedy, F.C.Harrison (by repute), Captain A.T.Warre and Mr
and Mrs George Warre, was exhibited by S.Marchant and Son, Recent
Acquisitions, 2008, no.30.

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