Selection of imperial porcelain over 93 years in three collections

5889 | Yongzheng period,Qing Dynasty AN IMPERIAL PAIR OF COPPER-RED TEA CUPS

AN IMPERIAL PAIR OF COPPER-RED TEA CUPS

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Size: D7.7cm

Signed and dated: Yongzheng period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 700,000


Yongzheng Six-Character Mark
Rounded form slightly tapering towards the neat foot covered on the exterior with an even copper-red glaze,the interior and base glazed white. Six character mark of Yongzheng within a double ring of underglaze blue and of the period,1723-1735.
▲ A similar piece is illustrated by Yao Hok Wa and Peter Y.K.Lam in Shimmering Colours,Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods,The Zhu Yue Tang Collection,Art Museum,the Chinese University of Hong Kong,2005,no.44,p.106;Another with a Qianlong mark is illustrated in the same book,no.45,p.107.
PROVENANCE
1. Formerly in a collection in Whampoa,Guangdong,circa 1890-1920,thence by decent to the grandchildren.
2. Mr. S. Bazini’s Collection