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A RARE WUCAI ‘MONTH’ CUP The couplet reads:
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
One side delicately painted in blue and enamelled in shades of green, 不隨千種盡，
iron-red and aubergine with a cluster of tree peony and flowering 獨放一年紅
bamboo issuing from a rocky grassy terrace, the reverse of the cup
with a poem and one seal, box. Which may be translated as:
5.5cm (2½in) diam. (2).
‘The rose does not follow the masses and die away,
£20,000 - 30,000 but alone sets forth its crimson all year round.’
CNY180,000 - 260,000
The poem on the back identifies this cup as depicting the China Rose
清康熙 五彩牡丹花神杯 (Rosa Chinensis) which was apparently the appropriate flower to
represent the eleventh month of the year. The poem has been loosely
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款
translated: ‘unlike the thousand other species which blossom and
Provenance: formerly on loan to the Bristol Museum wither (this flower) blossoms alone in red for an entire year’.

Bonhams, New Bond Street, 10 July 2006, lot 130
Bonhams, New Bond Street, 17 May 2012, lot 339 Full sets of twelve ‘month’ cups can be found both in the Percival
David Foundation, illustrated in R.Scott, For the Imperial Court: Qing

來源：曾借展於布里斯托博物館 Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, New
倫敦邦瀚斯，2006年7月10日，拍品編號130 York, 1997, no.23, and in the Qing Court Collection, The Complete
Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and
倫敦邦瀚斯，2012年5月17日，拍品編號339
Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.140.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.