A fine famille-verte wine cup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Lot 336. A fine famille-verte wine cup, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Diameter 3 1/8 in., 8 cm. Estimate 15,000 — 25,000 USD. Lot sold 30,000 USD. Courtesy Sotheby’s.
delicately potted, the conical sides rising from a short straight foot, the interior finely painted with cranes diving between clouds toward stylized waves in the well, the exterior with a traveler astride a donkey riding through an early spring landscape, an attendant following on foot, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark in underglaze blue within a circle, coll. no. 1220.
Property of The Jie Rui Tang Collection
Provenance: Collection of Pauline B. (1910-2000) and Myron S. (1906-1992) Falk Jr.,coll. no. 34.
Christie's New York, 20th September 2001, lot 153 (part lot).
Sotheby's. KANGXI: The Jie Rui Tang Collection, New York, 20 March 2018, 11:00 AM