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Two rare enamelled 'scholar' cups Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period image 1
Two rare enamelled 'scholar' cups Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period image 2
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Two rare enamelled 'scholar' cups Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period image 6
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Two rare enamelled 'scholar' cups
Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period

Fine Chinese Art
13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Two rare enamelled 'scholar' cups

Yongzheng six-character marks and of the period
Each cup with rounded sides, the first, delicately enamelled on the exterior with a scholar seated on the trunk of a pine tree meditating on a shaped rock, the second, decorated with a scholar wading in shallow water with his arms extended forward in anticipation of catching a bird beside a rocky island with a bamboo grove, each with a recessed base.
7.1cm (2¾in) diam. (2).

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Provenance: an English private collection

Compare a small footed polychrome bowl, Yongzheng six-character mark and period, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, with a similar treatment of a related scene illustrating a scholar and attendant by the riverbank looking at geese, and a plate, Yongzheng six-character mark and period, with similar enamelling of a scholar by a pine tree and rockwork, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, Hong Kong, 1999, pls.155-156.

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