A fine pair of small lemon-yellow glazed cups marks and period of Yongzheng

delicately potted with rounded sides supported on a short slightly tapered foot, the exterior evenly covered in a rich yellow enamel, the interior and base with a transparent glaze, the base inscribed with a six-character mark in underglaze-blue within a double square

Christie's Hong Kong, 27th October 2003, lot 702.

A pair of lemon-yellow cups in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, of the same size and form, and with the same four-character reign mark within a double square is illustrated in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 59a, no. 79. Compare another cup of this glaze and shape, with similar Yongzheng reign mark, from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1980, cat.no. 128, sold in these rooms, 19th November 1984, lot 218.

See a similar cup sold in these rooms, 27th April 1993, lot 68, and again, 27th April 1999, lot 419; and another also sold in these rooms, 5th November 1997, lot 1525.