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2 décembre 2015

A fine and rare doucai chicken cup, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double square and of the period

A fine and rare doucai chicken cup, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double square and of the period (1723-1735)

A fine and rare doucai chicken cup, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double square and of the period (1723-1735)

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A fine and rare doucai chicken cup, Yongzheng six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double square and of the period (1723-1735). Estimate HK$15,000,000 - HK$25,000,000 ($1,944,540 - $3,240,900). Unsold. Photo Christie's Image Ltd 2015

The cup is delicately potted in imitation to its Ming prototype with gently flared sides, exquisitely painted around the exterior in soft translucent enamels and underglaze blue to depict two cockerel-and-hen groups, each group observing their chicks foraging for food, divided on one side by iron-red roses growing from ornamental rocks, and the other by bamboo and lily, all between underglaze-blue double lines at the rim and a single line above the footless base. The reign mark is inscribed within the countersunk base. 3 1/8 in. (8.2 cm.) diam., box

Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 April 1998, lot 815

LiteratureThe Alan Chuang Collection of Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 2009, pl. 52

NotesCompare the present lot with other Yongzheng chicken cups, such as a pair exhibited at the Min Chiu Society Thirtieth Anniversary Exhibition, Selected Treasures of Chinese Art, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1990, Catalogue, no. 165; and one from the Sedgwick Collection, included in the Exhibition of the Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1964, Catalogue, no. 194. Compare, also, the Yongzheng-marked example of similar size sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 27 May 2008, lot 1587; another at Christie's New York, 19 March 2009, lot 554; and one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 June 2015, lot 3144.

Christie's. IMPORTANT CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART, 2 December 2015, Convention Hall

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