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Lot Essay
A slightly larger example was sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 15 May 1990, lot 285. Other examples with the Yongzheng reign mark within double-squares can be found in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 95; a pair given by Mr. and Mrs. Paul Bernat to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 11, 1980, no. 255; and another in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, included in the Museum's Exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1984, Catalogue, no. 46.
Compare with the fifteenth century prototype, a Chenghua-marked piece excavated from the late Chenghua stratum of the imperial kilnsite at Jingdezhen, illustrated in the Catalogue of the exhibition, A Legacy of Chenghua, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, no. C101. Compare also another fifteenth century wine cup of the same form and pattern with a Chenghua six-character mark within a double square, from the Percival David Collection included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, Catalogue no. 178, and in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong, 1978, Catalogue, no. 32.
Compare with the fifteenth century prototype, a Chenghua-marked piece excavated from the late Chenghua stratum of the imperial kilnsite at Jingdezhen, illustrated in the Catalogue of the exhibition, A Legacy of Chenghua, Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong, 1993, no. C101. Compare also another fifteenth century wine cup of the same form and pattern with a Chenghua six-character mark within a double square, from the Percival David Collection included in the O.C.S. Exhibition of The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, 1957, Catalogue no. 178, and in the Exhibition of Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the Collection of the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, Hong Kong, 1978, Catalogue, no. 32.