A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'LOTUS' CUPS

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE 'LOTUS' CUPS
GUANGXU DATED MARKS CORRESPONDING TO 1908 AND OF THE PERIOD

Thinly and naturalistically modelled with overlapping puce-enamelled petals tinged with white, the yellow-dotted stamenpierced with a small circular aperture connecting the hollow seeded lime-green stem forming the handle
8 in. (20.4 cm.) long (2)

Provenance

The Yangzhitang Collection, sold in our Singapore Rooms, 30 March 1997, lot 282

Exhibited

Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing from the Kwan Collection, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1983, Catalogue no. 141
Imperial Porcelain of Late Ch'ing from the Kwan Collection, National Museum of History, Taipei, 1985, Catalogue no. 141
Joined Colors - Ceramics from Collectors in the Min Chiu Society, Hong Kong, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington D. C., 1993, Catalogue no. 67

Lot Essay

The inscription on the reverse of the stem may be translated as 'A commemorative cup of the Autumn Manoeuvres near Lake Tai in Anhui Province in the 34th year of Guangxu of the Gerat Qing Dynasty'.

A pair of similar cups from the Weishaupt Collection is illustrated by G. Avitabile, From the Dragon's Treasures, London, 1987, p. 100, no. 142; while another was exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Late Chinese Imperial Porcelain, 1980, Catalogue no. 51.

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