Lot Essay
A pair of similar wine cups, from the E. T. Hall Collection, was sold in our London Rooms, 7 June 2004, lot 267. Compare also two pairs of slightly larger lemon-yellow cups, one illustrated by J. Wirgin in Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 58 and 77 ; the other illustrated in R. Kerr, Chinese Ceramics - Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty 1644-1911, Victoria and Albert Museum, Far Eastern Series 1986, p.93.