An Yixing stoneware 'peach' cup Early Qing dynasty, signed Chen Mingyuan
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An Yixing stoneware 'peach' cup
Early Qing dynasty, signed Chen Mingyuan
The finely potted cup in the form of a half-peach, smoothly finished to the interior and supported on a gnarled branch coiling under the cup and extending up one side, dividing into two stems, comprising the handle of the vessel, moulded with luxuriant leaves and a blossoming flower, the stoneware of a rich red, the underside with a two-character zhuanshu seal.
10cm long.
Sold for HK$ 500,000 inc. premium

Footnotes

  • A closely related but unsigned Yixing peach-shaped cup is illustrated by Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware, China Institute, New York, 1977, p.70, pl.45. See also a peach-shaped cup illustrated by Paul Moss, Emperor, Scholar, Artisan, Monk, London, 1984, p.200, pl.67. The Paul Moss example is impressed with the seal of Chen Ziwei, whom Moss argues is possibly an alternative name for Chen Ziqi, a late Ming to Kangxi potter who was probably Chen Mingyuan's father.

    清早期 朱泥桃花杯

    「鳴遠」篆文方印

    杯成半桃實形，其枝成柄，枝直往杯底伸廷成杯足，並貼塑桃花三朵，婀娜多姿，底鈐「鳴遠」篆文方印。

    華美協進社曾於美國費城藝術博物館借展一件無款識朱泥桃杯，其雕刻工藝可為本件桃花杯作參考，見謝瑞華編《I-Hsing Ware》，紐約，1977年，頁70，圖版45.另外一件鈐「陳次偉」篆文方印的朱泥桃杯，其雕刻與本件拍品幾無差別，詳見P.Moss《Emperor, Scholar, Artisan, Monk》，倫敦，1984年，頁200，圖版67。P.Moss在文中認為，陳次偉也許為陳子畦之別名，而陳子畦傳為陳鳴遠之父。

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