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Lot Essay
The inscription refers to the wonders of earlier ceramics, especially of the Xuande period and the chicken cups of the Chenghua period. It praises the skill of the enamelling.
A similar example is illustrated by Rosemary Scott in, For the Imperial Court, Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, p. 98, pl. 33, where the author notes that the motif is a variant of the more usual ''chicken cups'', decorated in the doucai technique. These copy cups made during the Chenghua period (1465-87), but the addition of human figures is a Qianlong innovation.
Compare also the similar examples illustrated in Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 64; in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, p. 171, no. 144; in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr and Mrs J.M. Hu, 1989, pl. 64; and in Exhibition of Chinese Art, Messers. C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1941, no. 747.
A similar example is illustrated by Rosemary Scott in, For the Imperial Court, Qing Porcelain from the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, p. 98, pl. 33, where the author notes that the motif is a variant of the more usual ''chicken cups'', decorated in the doucai technique. These copy cups made during the Chenghua period (1465-87), but the addition of human figures is a Qianlong innovation.
Compare also the similar examples illustrated in Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1993, pl. 64; in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1986, Catalogue, p. 171, no. 144; in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr and Mrs J.M. Hu, 1989, pl. 64; and in Exhibition of Chinese Art, Messers. C.T. Loo & Co., New York, 1941, no. 747.