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    Sale 6948

    CHINESE CERAMICS AND WORKS OF ART INCLUDING EXPORT ART

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    9 November 2004

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    • A WUCAI 'CHICKEN' CUP
    Lot 159

    A WUCAI 'CHICKEN' CUP

    UNDERGLAZE BLUE CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE, KANGXI (1662-1722)

    Price realised

    GBP 4,780

    Estimate

    GBP 4,000 - GBP 6,000

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    A WUCAI 'CHICKEN' CUP
    UNDERGLAZE BLUE CHENGHUA SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE SQUARE, KANGXI (1662-1722)
    Inspired by a Chenghua prototype, with steep rounded sides rising from a recessed base, painted and enamelled with a cockerel and a hen with their chicks pecking and roosting between flowering chrysanthemum stems issuing from rockwork, restored
    3 in. (7.6 cm.) diam.

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    Lot Essay

    A pair of chicken cups of this design also with Chenghua marks is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, p. 265, pl. 172. Another example but with a Kangxi six-character mark is illustrated in ibid., pl. 255, pl. 163

    An unfinished Chenghua example where the overglaze enamels were never applied is illustrated in A Legacy of Chenghua, Hong Kong, 1993, p. 199, pl. C55

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