Lot Essay
Chen Mingyuan made many scholar's objects and cups inspired by natural forms that included peaches, chesnuts and pomegranates and a number of these are illustrated by Lai Suk Yee and Terese Tse Bartholomew in The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Yixing Zisha Stoneware, Hong Kong, 2015, pp360-380, nos 140-150.