GUANGXU DATED MARKS CORRESPONDING TO 1908 AND OF THE PERIOD

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE COMMEMORATIVE DRINKING CUPS
GUANGXU DATED MARKS CORRESPONDING TO 1908 AND OF THE PERIOD
The cups are each thinly and naturalistically modelled with overlapping pink-enamelled petals tinged with white; the yellow-dotted stamen pierced with a small circular aperture, through the the hollow seeded lime-green stem forming the straw handle
7 1/2 in. (19 cm.) wide, fitted presentation box (2)

Provenance

Presented as a gift on 16th September 1941 to Mr. Gunjima Sadao by Zhao Guizhang (1889-1953), who was a navy officer based in Guangdong during the Republic period

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Lot Essay

The inscription on the reverse of the stem may be translated as 'A commemorative cup of the Autumn Manoeuvres near Lake Tai in Anhui Province in the 34th year of Guangxu of the Great Qing Dynasty'.

A pair of similar cups from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasures, London, 1987, p. 100, no. 142; while another was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue no. 51. A pair from the Yangzhitang Collection was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1458.

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