Lot Essay
Previously sold in London, 15 May 1990, lot 283.
Compare with a cup of this pattern and date in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, fig. 297. For the fifteenth century prototype, compare two cups in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, both of the same form and painted with roundels of fruit and flower, bearing Chenghua marks, one illustrated in the Museum Catalogue, Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pl. 22, and the other in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 53.
(US$45,000-50,000)
Compare with a cup of this pattern and date in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but with an apocryphal Chenghua mark, illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, fig. 297. For the fifteenth century prototype, compare two cups in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, both of the same form and painted with roundels of fruit and flower, bearing Chenghua marks, one illustrated in the Museum Catalogue, Enamelled Ware of the Ming Dynasty, Book I, pl. 22, and the other in the Illustrated Catalogue of the Ming Dynasty Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, pl. 53.
(US$45,000-50,000)