Provenance: G.T. Marsh and Company, San Francisco, 1971.

Note: These cups are based on Chenghua prototypes such as one in the Qing Court Collection illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (II), Hong Kong, 2000, p. 35, no. 32, which is decorated with a line of lancacharacters above a band of stylized lotus at the foot. A single Yongzheng-marked cup of this type and of the same size was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 27 May 2008, lot 1824. 

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art Including Property from the Arthur M. Sackler Collections. 26 March 2010. New York, Rockefeller Plaza