Lot 3183. A small doucai winecup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 6.9 cm., 2 3/4 in. Estimate 60,000-80,000 HKD (5,871 — 7,829 EUR). Lot sold 137,500 HKD (13,455 EUR). Photo Sotheby's

of conical form, the steep sides of the interior painted with an inverted phoenix with outstretched wings, its body wrapping over the rim and extending down the exterior with long plumage flowing, set opposite two branches of bamboo further extending over the rim, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark. 

PROVENANCE: A Japanese collection.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2967.

NOTE: Compare a similar Kangxi winecup, but with the hallmark Yu ci Chunyi tang ('Bestowed from the Hall of Sincerity'), in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 198. See also a similar pair of winecups with the same hallmark, offered in these rooms, 28th April 1992, lot 201

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art Hong Kong | 04 avr. 2012