A RARE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-RED GROUND WINECUP AND STAND

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A RARE IMPERIAL FAMILLE ROSE RUBY-RED GROUND WINECUP AND STAND
YONGZHENG YUZHI MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

The thinly potted winecup of inverted bell shape, delicately enamelled on the exterior with three evenly spaced yellow-ground panels, each painted with a large pink peony bloom and a smaller bud borne on leafy stems, bordered with lined foliate scrollwork, divided by pale yellow lotus blooms, all reserved on a rich ruby-red ground, the stand similarly decorated with five bats in iron-red painted on the underside (the stand with enamel flakes stabilised and rim restored)
2 1/2 in. (6.5 cm.) diam. and 4 3/4 in. (12 cm.) diam.

Exhibited

Min Chiu Society, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1992, Catalogue, no. 158.

Lot Essay

Two other ruby-ground yuzhi winecups of this group are known, one is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by Ayers, Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A614; and the other formerly in the R.I.C. Herridge Collection was sold in Hong Kong, 16 November 1988, lot 398.

(US$90,000-120,000)

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