each delicately potted with an everted rim and countersunk base, enameled to the exterior with a continuous scene depicting Wang Xizhi seated below a willow tree overhanging a river, watching five geese in the water below, the base with an apocryphal six-character Chenghua mark (2). Diameter 2 5/8  in., 6.7 cm .

Note: Compare a similar doucai cup of this subject matter previously sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 14th November 1989, lot 221, and more recently again in these rooms, 11th September 2012, lot 42.  

A Small Doucai 'Scholar And Geese' Cup. Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period. Sold 68,500 USD at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 11th September 2012, lot 42 . Photo Sotheby's.  

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art New York, 15 Mar 2017