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

5024 | Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty A RARE WUCAI‘chrysanthemum in September’CUP WITH POEM,HUASHENBEI

A RARE WUCAI‘chrysanthemum in September’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 1,900,000

LITERATURE
Regina Krahl,Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,London,1994-2010,vol. 4,no. 1728 - 1739.
Kangxi Six-Characters Mark
The rounded sides rising from a short foot to a gently everted rim,the exterior was exquisitely painted with chrysanthemum of September in the wucai palette in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels. The interior and base dressed with a pale white glaze. The reverse inscribed with a ten-character poem in ‘kaishu’,and a seal mark,the base inscribed in underglaze-blue with a six-character mark within double circles.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong,25th April 2004,lot 218.
Eskenazi Ltd,London.
‘A thousand fills of wine drunk in a plain white robe.
Throughout the whole life fragrant like a young woman.’