painted with a continuous scene of five officials gathered together in a fenced landscape among trees, flowers and rockwork, with an attendant pushing a cart of gold, the interior delicately painted with a central day lily flower surrounded by sprays of lotus, chrysanthemum, peony and other flowers beneath a gilt rim, seal mark in iron red. 

Provenance: Auty Collection, Bristol.
S. Marchant & Son, London, 2010.

Exhibited: S. Marchant & Son, Recent Acquisitions, London, 2010, Catalogue, no. 49.

Note: A cup with similar decoration and size, but rounded rather than hexagonal, is in the British Museum collection and illustrated in Soame Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain: The Ch'ing Dynasty (1644 - 1911), London, 1971, no. 1, pl. CX1.