KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A WUCAI 'PEACH BLOSSOM' 'MONTH' CUP
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Representing the third lunar month, the cup is finely decorated on one side with a blossoming peach tree and is inscribed on the other side with a short poem referring to the spring.
2 5⁄8 in. (6.6 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Thomas R. Vaughan (1908-1979) Collection, New York, and thence by descent within the family.

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Lot Essay

A comparable 'peach blossom' 'month' cup formerly in the collection of Y. C. Chen was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 1911. The poem on the reverse was composed by Xue Neng (AD 817-880) and can be translated as: the swallow returns when the blossoms sway in the breeze, the farmer returns to his field in this season late in spring.

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