清雍正 釉裏紅酒盃 《大清雍正年製》款

delicately potted with curved sides rising to a straight mouth, the exterior applied overall with a slightly mottled copper-red glaze of vivid crushed-raspberry tone, draining to white from the rim and pooling to a darker colour around the foot, the interior and base reserved in white, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character reign mark

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香港蘇富比1984年11月19日，編號219
香港蘇富比1997年4月29/30日，編號589

The winecup is in good condition. The colour is a slightly richer and more attractive colour than in the catalogue illustration.
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At the end of the Kangxi period the use of copper-red was revived in a variety of ways to achieve different glaze effects and was perfected during the Yongzheng reign. The craftsmen’s thorough understanding of the pigment allowed them to manipulate the changes that occurred due to firing, such as its tendency to turn pale rose-pink or green, to great aesthetic effect.

A closely related example is illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1999, pl. 256; and another is published in Regina Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, London, 1994, pl. 826, where the author notes that the mottling was ‘probably intended to imitate the effect of some thick red glazes of the early Ming dynasty’ (p. 182). Further cups of this type include one sold in these rooms, 16^th May 1977, lot 173; and two were sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 13^th January 1987, lot 494A.