A RARE AND FINE SMALL YELLOW-ENAMELED CUP

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A RARE AND FINE SMALL YELLOW-ENAMELED CUP
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE AND OF THE PERIOD

The deep sides flaring slightly towards the rim from the small ring foot, covered on the exterior with an opaque glaze of even lemon-yellow tone, the interior glazed white
2 5/8in. (6.7cm.) diam.

Provenance

Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

There does not appear to be another yellow-glazed cup of this size and shape with this particular mark published. A cup of approximately the same size (6.1cm.) with a Yongzheng mark within a double circle is illustrated by Gordon Lang in The Powell-Cotton Collection of Chinese Ceramics, Powell-Cotton Museum, Birchington, Kent, England, 1988, col. pl. 6, no. 85. A pair of larger cups (9cm. diam.) of this shape with a Yongzheng six-character mark within a double circle is in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by Wirgin, "Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest", B.M.F.E.A., No. 50, 1978, pl. 58, no. 77