Lot 54
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THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ CUPS
THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ CUPS
THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ CUPS
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THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ CUPS

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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THREE BLUE AND WHITE PORCELAIN ‘BIRD AND FLOWER’ CUPS
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each cup is thinly potted and decorated to the exterior with two pairs of birds amongst loquat trees and flowering trees, the interior with a stylised double-vajra enclosing lanca characters. The countersunk base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua reign mark in underglaze blue in a double square.
3 ¾ in. (9.5 cm.) diam.
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Lot Essay

These cups with their thin potting and soft tones of cobalt blue, are inspired by prototypes from the Chenghua reign, such as two cups of similar size and design, Chenghua mark and period, in the National Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua Porcelain Ware, Taipei, 2003, nos. 60 and 61. In the same exhibition there are also two Jiajing-marked cups with the same design, ibid, nos. 62 and 63. These cups may also be compared to a related Yongzheng cup from the Brian S. McElney Collection, illustrated in Porcelain of the High Qing Porcelain of the High Qing, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983, no. 18. A single, comparable Yongzheng blue and white cup was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 November 2019, lot 2903.

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