Lot 217. A pair of famille-verte 'Month' cups, Tongzhi marks and period (1862-1874). Diameter 2 1/8  in., 6.7 cm. Estimate 6,000 — 8,000 USD. Lot sold 25,000 USD. © Sotheby's.

each with steep rounded sides rising to a gently flared rim, both painted on one side in underglaze-blue and overglaze enamels with a scholar and his servant walking in a landscape, flowering trees in the foreground and cloud-enveloped hills in the distance, the reverse inscribed with a couplet, ending with a single-character seal mark, shang, six-character mark in underglaze blue (2).

Provenance: Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9th November 1982, lot 758.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 2nd November 1998, lot 325.