DIMENSIONS

Diameter: 3 ¼ inches

 

PROVENANCE

• Christie's New York, September 20, 2001, lot 153

• The Falk Collection, no. 34

 

CATALOGUE NOTES

A pair of small famille verte conical cups. Thinly potted, the exterior of each delicately painted with a scene of a sage riding a donkey beside a blossoming prunus tree in a landscape, an attendant following behind carrying one of the branches, the interior decorated in doucai with four cranes in flight alternating with clouds at the rim above a wave filled medallion. With Chenghua marks.

 

RELATED EXAMPLES

The style of painting on these two bowls strongly resembles two other, slightly smaller, pairs of conical cups, also from the Kangxi period, and also with apocryphal Chenghua marks, in the Percival David Foundation. These David Foundation cups are published in Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enameled Wares in the Percival David Foundation of Chinese Art, 1973, nos. PDF 875 and 876, and PDF 892 and 893, illustrated pl. IX.