A FINE SMALL LEMON-YELLOW 'BUBBLE' WINECUP
A FINE SMALL LEMON-YELLOW 'BUBBLE' WINECUP

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A FINE SMALL LEMON-YELLOW 'BUBBLE' WINECUP
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-SQUARES AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Delicately potted with wide rounded sides rising from a short tapered ring foot, the exterior evenly covered with a bright lemon-yellow enamel, the interior and base applied with a transparent glaze
2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm.) diam., box
Provenance
The Goldschmidt collection, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 68.

Lot Essay

A pair of lemon-yellow-enamelled 'bubble' wine-cups of this type with Yongzheng marks, from the Paul and Helen Bernat collection, were sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 15 November 1988, lot 59; another pair from a private English collection sold in these Rooms, 27 October 2003, lot 702. A single cup from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chiense Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 128. Another pair of yellow cups with four-character Yongzheng marks, in the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, is illustrated by Jan Wirgin, Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, 1978, pl. 59a, no. 79.

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