A fine pair of underglaze-blue and iron-red 'lotus' cups Seal marks and period of Qianlong | 清乾隆 青花礬紅折枝番蓮紋盃一對 《大清乾隆年製》款
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A fine pair of underglaze-blue and iron-red 'lotus' cups
Seal marks and period of Qianlong
清乾隆 青花礬紅折枝番蓮紋盃一對 《大清乾隆年製》款
each decorated with four stylised Indian lotus blossoms in iron red wreathed by underglaze-blue foliage, the base inscribed with a six-character seal mark, wood stands
8.1 cm
Collection of Edward T. Chow (1910-1980).
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19th May 1981, lot 536.
Collection of Morisada Hosokawa.
仇焱之（1910-1980年）收藏
香港蘇富比1981年5月19日，編號536
細川護貞收藏
Hosokawa Morisada Collection ten II – Shinno jiki, Persia no touki [Morisada Hosokawa Collection exhibition II – Qing porcelains and Persian ceramics], Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, 1993, cat. no. 17.
《細川護貞コレクション展 II 清の磁器・波斯の陶器》，熊本県立美術館，熊本市，1993年，編號17
Morisada Hosokawa, Mokumei Goshiki: Shinchō jiki [Bewildering colours: Qing Dynasty porcelains], Tokyo, 1992, no. 62.
《目迷五色 清朝磁器》，細川護貞著，中央公論社，東京，1992年，編號62
The design of the present cup is based on Ming dynasty prototypes, such as a Chenghua marked example, excavated from the late Chenghua stratum of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen and included in the exhibition A Legacy of Chenghua, The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, cat. no. C95.
This design was revived in the Yongzheng period; see a Yongzheng pair illustrated in Chinese Porcelain. The S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, Hong Kong, 1987, pl. 99. Qing dynasty cups of this design are more commonly found with Qianlong seal marks, such as the present pair. Compare a single cup, sold in these rooms, 27th May 2014, lot 771.