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2 juin 2014

A fine Famille Verte 'Month' cup , Kangxi six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1662-1722)

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Lot 3315. A fine Famille Verte 'Month' cup , Kangxi six-character mark within double circles and of the period (1662-1722); 2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) diam. Estimate HK$1,200,000 - HK$1,800,000 ($155,487 - $233,231). Price Realized HK$1,240,000 ($160,633). © Christie's Image Ltd 2014

The cup is delicately potted with deep rounded sides and flaring gently towards the rim. It is painted with soft underglaze blue and enamelled with narcissus and a single rose spray extending from jagged rocks, the reverse with a poetic couplet followed by the seal mark, Shang, 'appreciation', box. 

Provenance: Helen Ling Collection (by repute)

Note: The couplet can be translated as:

As the spring breeze bushes past the jade-like blossoms, the clear morning arrives;
The night moon skips on the waves to pass beyond the great causeway.
 

There appears to be some debate on whether the narcissus depicts the eleventh or twelfth lunar month. Similar examples in the Percival David Foundation, housed at the British Museum, and the Hong Kong Museum of Art are both designated as the eleventh month, respectively illustrated by R. E. Scott, 'Fine Porcelain and Delicate Brushwork',Orientations, November 1986, figs. 2-2b; and the other included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 15.

Compare a very similar example formerly in the Paul and Helen Bernat and Jingguantang Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 583; a pair sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 1996, lot 753; and another one at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 April 2002, lot 623. 

Christie's. THE IMPERIAL SALE / IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 28 May 2014, Hong Kong - http://www.christies.com/

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