Details
A pair of famille rose 'chicken' cups
Qianlong six character seal mark, 19th/20th Century
The deep U-shaped body painted with the scene of Jia Chang stamping his left foot to call the chickens in a setting of blue rockwork and peony, the reverse inscribed with a lengthy poem in black, rim cracks
8.5 cm. diam., box (2)
Provenance
Lempertz, Cologne, 541, 29 November 1974, lot 3404.
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