A Fine Small Lemon-Yellow Enamelled Winecup Mark and Period of Yongzheng

finely potted of hemispherical form with rounded sides rising from a short tapered foot, the exterior covered with a brilliant opaque lemon-yellow glaze, the interior and base glazed white, the base inscribed with a six-character reign mark within double squares

The Goldschmidt Collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13th November 1990, lot 68.
Christie's Hong Kong, 30th May 2005, lot 1495.

The overall condition is excellent. The actual colour is slightly more yellowish than the catalogue illustration.
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A closely related lemon-yellow cup bearing a six-character mark within a double square, as on the present example, from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, was included in the exhibition An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, cat. no. 128; a pair is illustrated in Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 79; another pair from the collection of Paul and Helen Bernat, was sold in these rooms, 15th November 1988, lot 59, and a single cup was sold in our New York rooms, 22nd March 1995, lot 262. Compare also a lemon-yellow cup with this mark, but of conical form, illustrated in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994-2010, vol. 4, no. 1829.