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Lot Essay
A similar contrasting gilt and blackish-brown surface can also be seen on a covered lobed cylindrical ewer illustrated in China’s Renaissance in Bronze: The Robert H. Clague Collection of Later Chinese Bronzes 1100-1900, Phoenix, pp. 142-5, no. 28.
Similar saucers were discovered in a 17th-century hoard at Tongdao County, Hunan Province, as illustrated in Wenwu, 1984, no. 2, p. 91, figs. 11-16. Compare a cup and stand dated 16th-17th century of comparable size (13 cm. diam.) and shape to the present example, without the handles on the cup, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2015, lot 165. See, also, two completely gilt examples in the Musée Cernuschi, Paris, nos. M.C. 198 and M.C. 200, which are referred to as “alcohol cups.”
Similar saucers were discovered in a 17th-century hoard at Tongdao County, Hunan Province, as illustrated in Wenwu, 1984, no. 2, p. 91, figs. 11-16. Compare a cup and stand dated 16th-17th century of comparable size (13 cm. diam.) and shape to the present example, without the handles on the cup, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 6 April 2015, lot 165. See, also, two completely gilt examples in the Musée Cernuschi, Paris, nos. M.C. 198 and M.C. 200, which are referred to as “alcohol cups.”