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A FINE PAIR OF WHITE JADE CUPS The form of the present cups seems to have been inspired by the
popular Chenghua doucai ‘chicken’ cups in porcelain, which first gained
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY prominence in the late Ming dynasty, and continued to be highly sought
after and copied during the Qing period. The Percival David Foundation
Each cup is well carved with rounded sides rising from a shallow Collection has two chicken cups from the Chenghua and Kangxi
periods, both enamelled with cockerels in a garden scene similar to
foot ring to a straight mouth. The jade is of an even white tone the scenes on the current bowls, and illustrated by Rosemary Scott,
Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art. A Guide to the Collection,
with small areas of milk-white mottling and bright russet ‘skin’. London, 1989, no. 79.

3 in. (7.6 cm.) diam., wood stands, box (2)

HK$1,200,000-1,800,000 US$160,000-230,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Sotheby’s London, 7 June 2000, lot 59

清十八世紀 白玉小盃一對

來源
倫敦蘇富比，2000 年 6 月 7 日，拍品 59 號

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