Lot 264. A doucai 'chrysanthemum' wine cup, China, Chenghua six-character mark, possibly Kangxi period, 18th century. Estimate 15 000/25 000 €. Lot sold 15 000 €. Photo Nagel

of deep 'U'-shape, the steep sides rising from a short tapered foot, delicately painted around the exterior with four alternating red and blue-petalled chrysanthemum foliate sprays, apocryphal mark of Chenghua. D. 5,7 cm. Good condition 

Provenance: Property from an old Paris private collection, according to the family in their possesion since the 1970's

Note: A Chenghua prototype of the same form and motif, recovered from the Chenghua stratum of the Ming imperial kilns at Jingdezhen, is illustrated in Imperial Porcelain: Recent Discoveries of Jingdezhen Ware, Museum of Oriental Ceramics, Osaka, 1995, cat. no. 163 

Nagel. Asian Art, 09.12.2016