YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

This delicate cup, with its thin potting and soft tones of cobalt blue, is inspired by prototypes from the Chenghua reign, such as two cups of identical size and design of Chenghua mark and period, in the National Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-hua Porcelain Ware, Taipei, 2003, nos. 60 and 61. In the same exhibition there are also two Jiajing-marked cups with the same design, ibid, nos. 62 and 63.

Compare to an identical Yongzheng cup from the Brian S. McElney Collection, illustrated in Porcelain of the High Qing Porcelain of the High Qing, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 1983, no. 18.