Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CUP MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI | 清康熙 青花卷草紋小盃 《大清康熙年製》款
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October 9, 08:09 AM GMT
Estimate
150,000 - 200,000 HKD
Lot Details
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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE CUP
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
清康熙 青花卷草紋小盃
《大清康熙年製》款
painted around the exterior above the base with a band of trefoil-shaped sprigs formed from interlinked stems, all above a single line border encircling the top of the foot, the base inscribed with a six-character mark within a double circle
8.8 cm, 3 ⅜ in.
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 17th/18th May 1988, lot 189.
香港蘇富比1988年5月17/18日，編號189
A similar pair of cups from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art is included Margaret Medley, Illustrated Catalogue of Porcelains Decorated in Underglaze Blue and Copper Red in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, London, 1968, p. 42, nos A688 and A689. The former cup is still in the Foundation, but the latter was sold four times in our rooms: twice in London, 15th October 1968, lot 141, and 8th July 1974, lot 306; and twice in Hong Kong, 14th November 1989, lot 74, and 11th April 2008, lot 3053.