Lot 2811. A very rare green-enamelled moulded and incised cupstand, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period (1662-1722); 5 1/4 in. (13.1 cm.) wide. Estimate HKD 150,000 - HKD 200,000. Price realised HKD 275,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2010

Of shallow quatrefoil form, the interior incised with a frieze of featherychilong, encircling the small central circular raised ring, covered on the interior, exterior and underside base with a translucent green enamel

Provenance: Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 November 1988, lot 335
Greenwald Collection, no. 41 

Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, Catalogue, no. 41 

Note: A similar cupstand of this very rare pattern dated to the Kangxi period, from the Percival David Foundation, now in the British Museum, is illustrated, Catalogue, section 6, pl. XI, B513. 

Cup stand with dragons, Qing dynasty, Kangxi mark and period, AD 1662–1722. Porcelain, incised, with underglaze cobalt-blue mark and green glaze, Jingdezhen, Jiangxi province. 13 cm. Sir Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, PDF B513 © 2017 Trustees of the British Museum.

Christie's. For Imperial Appreciation: Fine Chinese Ceramics from the Greenwald Collection, 1 December 2010, Hong Kong