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Lot 7292

Two famille rose enameled libation cups

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23 June 2015, 10:00 PDT
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Two famille rose enameled libation cups

The first, Guangxu period and dated by inscription to 1908, molded in the shape of a flower, identified either as a peony or a lotus, with interior and exterior walls enameled in shades of rose, a small drainage hole in the floor of the well placed within a gourd-shaped reserve dotted with yellow enamel stamens, the hole connecting to the hollow stem of lime green enamel finished with tiny black enameled dots and the long inscription da Qing Guangxu sanshi-shi nian Anhui Taihu fujin qiucao jinian bei (Souvenir cup of the Autumn military exercises at Lake Tai, Anhui in the thirty-fourth year of the Guangxu reign of the great Qing); the second cup of practically identical form and decoration, also Guangxu period but without the inscription. [2]
7 1/2in (19cm) long

Footnotes

For a similarly inscribed peony cup in the Victoria & Albert Museum, with yellow-dotted stamen reserve of similar gourd shape around the drainage hole but of slightly larger size, see Ming Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics, 1998. no. 11, pp. 42-43 (19.7cm long). The stamen reserve of the same shape also appears in a pair of cups of described as in the shape of an Indian lotus by H. A. van Oort in Chinese Porcelain of the 19th and 20th centuries, pl. 95, p. 76 (17cm long, also as Guangxu, dated 1908). The example in the Palace Museum is also described as a lotus cup: see Gugong Bowuyuan Cang Wenwu Zhenpin Quanji 39: Falangcai Fencai (The Complete Collection of the Treasures of the Palace Museum, Beijing 39: Porcelains with Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration), 2008, no. 249, p. 280.

Saleroom notices

Please note that the hollow stem on the second cup in this lot has been retouched on the underside with lime green and black pigments to match the surrounding enamel.

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