Romance Among Blooming Roses The Meiyintang And Western Collection Of Kangxi And Yongzheng Imperial Ceramics

5019 | Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty A RARE WUCAI‘peony in April’CUP WITH POEM,HUASHENBEI

A RARE WUCAI‘peony in April’CUP WITH POEM,HUASHENBEI

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Size: D6.6cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 2,000,000

LITERATURE
Regina Krahl,Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,London,1994-2010,vol. 4,no. 1728 - 1739.
Kangxi Six-Characters Mark
Delicately potted of deep U-shape with flared rim and a short straight foot,painted on one side with a flower motif,peony,in the wucai palette in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels,the flowers representing April out of the twelve months,the reverse inscribed with a poem relating to the flower on the front,followed by a seal reading shang(‘to appreciate’),inscribed on the base with a six-character mark within a double ring.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong,29th October 2001,lot 508.
Eskenazi Ltd,London.
‘At dawn its beauty receives dew from a golden palm.
In the evening the fragrance penetrates deep into the Jade Hall.’