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Lot Essay
Yellow-enamelled cups of this exact shape are relatively rare. A single cup from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1980, no. 128. Another pair of yellow-enamelled cups with four-character Yongzheng marks, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, 1978, pl. 59a, no. 79.
A related pair of lemon-yellow-enamelled 'bubble' cups with Yongzheng marks, from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection, were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 59; another pair from a private English collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 702. A single yellow-enamelled cup was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3300. Another single cup was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22 April 2021, lot 12.
A related pair of lemon-yellow-enamelled 'bubble' cups with Yongzheng marks, from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection, were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 59; another pair from a private English collection sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 October 2003, lot 702. A single yellow-enamelled cup was sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2011, lot 3300. Another single cup was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 22 April 2021, lot 12.