Lot Essay
Cf. another rare pair included in the Traveling Exhibition Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, Catalogue, 1992, no. 135.
For a pair of Yongzheng-marked doucai enamelled cups painted in a related pattern with cranes in flight amid ruyi-clouds above a band of cresting waves see the examples in the Chang Foundation illustrated by Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics for Han to Qing Dynasties, pl. 134; another such cup was sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 741; a similar blue and white decorated cup was also sold in these Rooms, 18 March 1991, lot 561
For a pair of Yongzheng-marked doucai enamelled cups painted in a related pattern with cranes in flight amid ruyi-clouds above a band of cresting waves see the examples in the Chang Foundation illustrated by Spencer, Selected Chinese Ceramics for Han to Qing Dynasties, pl. 134; another such cup was sold in these Rooms, 26 September 1989, lot 741; a similar blue and white decorated cup was also sold in these Rooms, 18 March 1991, lot 561