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Lot Essay
This 'lemon-yellow' enamel is a pastel tone mixed with white to achieve opaqueness. Its tone was derived from lead stannate (lead and tin), which was almost exclusively used for small cups and dishes. A similar, but smaller (9.1 cm. diam) pair to the present cup is illustrated by J. Wirgin in Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, p. 242, no. 78 (pl. 58b).
Compare to a slightly smaller pair of Yongzheng lemon-yellow cups (7.3 cm. diam.), formerly in the E. T. Hall Collection, sold at Christie’s London, 7 June 2004, lot 267; and a single Yongzheng cup of similar size and shape, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1523, and later sold in The Meiyintang Collection- An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelain; Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 32.
Compare to a slightly smaller pair of Yongzheng lemon-yellow cups (7.3 cm. diam.), formerly in the E. T. Hall Collection, sold at Christie’s London, 7 June 2004, lot 267; and a single Yongzheng cup of similar size and shape, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 29 May 2007, lot 1523, and later sold in The Meiyintang Collection- An Important Selection of Imperial Chinese Porcelain; Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 7 April 2011, lot 32.