A FINE FAMILLE VERTE MONTH CUP

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A FINE FAMILLE VERTE MONTH CUP
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The cup is delicately potted and finely painted and enamelled with clumps of flowering cymbidium orchids with long slender leaves, emblematic of the seventh month, the reverse inscribed with a seasonal couplet by a Tang poet, Guangdian qingxiang fa, gaotai yuan chuiyin, 'The subtle perfume of orchids pervades the great hall as music plays on the lofty terraces', terminating with a seal mark, Shang, 'Appreciation'
2 5/8 in. (6.6 cm.) diam.

Lot Essay

Previously sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 November 1986, lot 286.

For complete sets of Kangxi month cups, see the Percival David Foundation's Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Wares, London, 1991, no. 815; the set in the Palace Musuem, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 65, pl. 48; and another from the Jingguantang Collection, sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 585.

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