KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FINE FAMILLE VERTE WINE-CUP
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The delicately potted flared sides are well painted with a couple seated on a painting table watching a pair of amorous fowl, next to a willow tree under billowing clouds. The recessed base is inscribed with an apocryphal Chenghua mark.
3 3/8 in. (8.6 cm.) diam., stand, box

Provenance

Estate of Dr. Ip Yee
Sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 November 1984, lot 220

Exhibited

Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, Ch'ing Polychrome Porcelain, 1977, no. 40

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Compare to a similar famille verte cup of the same form and painted with a related scene, included in the Exhibition of Ch'ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, Catalogue, no.95; and another sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 20 November 1984, lot 399.

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