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拍品專文
A stemcup of this rare design from the C.P. Lin Collection was included in a joint exhibition the Percival David Foundation and C.P. Lin collections, and illustrated by R. E. Scott, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration: Four Dynasties of Jingdezhen Porcelain, 1992, no. 37, p. 47. The example from the C.P. Lin Collection was formerly in the T.Y. Chao Collection, and was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 238.
Two related stemcups but with a lady seated in a pavilion are also known. The first is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Ming Dynasty, vol. 14, no. 182, p. 178; and another from the collection of Jean-Pierre Dubosc was included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice 1954, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 646, p. 176. A further stemcup decorated with two ladies seated in a pavilion from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Ming Xuande Ciqi Tezhan Mulu, 1980, no. 66.
Compare a similarly sized and shaped stemcup, inscribed with sanskrit characters on the interior and dragons amidst waves on the exterior, excavated from the Xuande stratum, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 189, no. 53.
Two related stemcups but with a lady seated in a pavilion are also known. The first is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Ming Dynasty, vol. 14, no. 182, p. 178; and another from the collection of Jean-Pierre Dubosc was included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice 1954, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 646, p. 176. A further stemcup decorated with two ladies seated in a pavilion from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Ming Xuande Ciqi Tezhan Mulu, 1980, no. 66.
Compare a similarly sized and shaped stemcup, inscribed with sanskrit characters on the interior and dragons amidst waves on the exterior, excavated from the Xuande stratum, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 189, no. 53.