KANGXI-YONGZHENG PERIOD (1662-1735)

The decoration and shape of this well-painted cup is based on Chenghua period (1465-1487) prototypes, such as four Chenghua-period examples of the same size (7.1 cm. diam.) with five sacrificial objects on the exterior in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Catalogue of the Special Exhibition of Ch’eng-Hua Porcelain Wares, Taipei, 2003, pp. 160-61, nos. 157-160. The Percival David Foundation, London, has both a Chenghua-period example as well as an 18th-century Chenghua-marked version such as the present cup, both illustrated by R. Scott and S. Pierson in Flawless Porcelains: Imperial Ceramics from the Reign of the Chenghua Emperor, London, 1995, p. 43, no. 24 and p. 51, no. 39, respectively.