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PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN 清康熙 五彩花神盃
A FINE WUCAI ‘MONTH’ CUP 《大清康熙年製》款 「賞」字
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
來源：
finely potted with deep rounded sides rising from a short 香港蘇富比1998年4月28日，編號823
foot to a flared rim, the exterior delicately enamelled with red
florets, the reverse inscribed in underglaze blue with a poem 詩文：
reading Qing xiang he su yu, jia se chu qing yan (‘The fragrance 清香和宿雨，佳色出晴烟
blends with the flavour of evening rain; the beautiful colour
stands out in clear weather like in mist’), followed by a seal
mark reading shang, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with
a six-character reign mark within a double circle
6.6 cm, 2⅝ in.

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 28th April 1998, lot 823.

HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,300-64,000

Month cups depicting seasonal flowers accompanied by Complete sets of month cups are extremely rare. A full set
pertinent two-line poems, represent a classic design of the of month cups in the Palace Museum, Bejing, is illustrated in
Kangxi period. Very delicately potted, they are painted in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace
the proper wucai palette of underglaze blue and overglaze Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 65, pl. 48; another
enamels, which was devised in the Ming dynasty, but rarely set from the Sir Percival David collection and now in the British
used in the Qing, when the underglaze colour was generally Museum, London, is published in the Illustrated Catalogue
omitted. On these month cups the designs are generally of Qing Enamelled Wares in the Percival David Foundation
sketched on the unglazed porcelain in a faint underglaze blue. of Chinese Art, rev. ed., London, 1991, pl. 815; another in
the Idemitsu Museum of Art, Tokyo, is included in Chinese
Slight differences in size, colours, writing styles and marks
Ceramics in the Idemitsu Collection, Tokyo, 1987, pl. 221.
between individual cups and different months suggest that
even these cups may not have been produced as sets of
twelve, but perhaps issued consecutively, as the year evolved,
to be assembled at the end.

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