In His Majesty’s Palm: Exquisite Imperial Porcelain from the Alan Chuang Collection
In His Majesty’s Palm: Exquisite Imperial Porcelain from the Alan Chuang Collection
A fine and exceedingly rare set of twelve famille-verte ‘month’ cups, Marks and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 五彩十二月花神盃一套十二件 《大清康熙年製》款
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A fine and exceedingly rare set of twelve famille-verte ‘month’ cups,
Marks and period of Kangxi
清康熙 五彩十二月花神盃一套十二件 《大清康熙年製》款
each delicately and thinly potted with a bell shape supported on a short straight foot, exquisitely painted in famille-verte enamels and underglaze blue with a flowering plant emblematic of the month of the year, the reverse inscribed with a poem relating to the flower on the front, followed by a square seal shang (appreciation), inscribed on the base with a six-character mark within a double circle, wood stands
d. 6.5 to 6.6 cm
Edward T. Chow (1910-80).
Collection of the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, since 1950 or earlier.
Collection of Paul and Helen Bernat.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15th November 1988, lot 22.
Collection of T.T. Tsui, Jingguantang Collection.
Christie's Hong Kong, 3rd November 1996, lot 585.
Sotheby's New York, 15th September 1999, lot 88.
仇焱之（1910-80年）
翫齋收藏，自1950年或更早
白納德伉儷收藏
香港蘇富比1988年11月15日，編號22
徐展堂（靜觀堂）收藏
香港佳士得1996年11月3日，編號585
紐約蘇富比1999年9月15日，編號88
Helen D. Ling and Edward T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, Hong Kong, 1950, vol. II, no. 121.
The Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 103.
Sotheby's Hong Kong – Twenty Years, 1973-1993, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 205.
The Tsui Museum of Art. Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 105.
Julian Thompson, The Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 40.
Helen D. Ling 及仇焱之，《翫齋珍藏歷代名瓷影譜》，香港，1950年，下冊，編號121
《徐氏藝術館》，香港，1991年，圖版103
《香港蘇富比二十週年》，香港，1993年，圖版205
《徐氏藝術館：陶瓷IV》，香港，1995年，圖版105
朱湯生，《中國瓷器：莊紹綏收藏》，香港，2009年，圖版40