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A VERY RARE RUBY GROUND FAMILLE ROSE CUP STAND AND A CUP
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    HK$1,500,000 - HK$2,000,000
  • ($194,135 - $258,847)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
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Lot Description

A VERY RARE RUBY GROUND FAMILLE ROSE CUP STAND AND A CUP
QIANLONG FOUR-CHARACTER SEALMARKS AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The shallow rounded sides rising to an everted rim, surrounding the flattened cavetto and raised central cup holder, all raised on four ruyi form feet, finely enamelled in subtle tones of blue, yellow, green, iron-red and grisaille with four circular mountainous landscape panels depicting the four seasons interspersed by formal lotus blooms borne on leafy tendrils against a graviata incised ruby-red feathery scroll ground, the rim and reverse with further bands of lotus blooms and tendrils; the wine cup similarly decorated with stylised lotus sprays above a yellow-ground lappet border, the interior gilt
The cup stand 6 3/8 (16.3 cm.); the cup 2 5/8 (6.5 cm.) wide


清乾隆 粉彩胭脂紅地軋道開光山水盞托配小盃 四字篆書款

盞托呈圓形，折沿，下承四如意足。通體胭脂紅地，軋道繪勾蓮紋。盤中央凸起盞槽，盞槽邊沿描金線。盤四面開光，開光內粉彩繪山水圖，中間以朵蓮紋；折沿處繪蓮紋八組，口沿描金。底施松綠石釉，如意足上繪朵花紋，邊沿描金，底心青花書「乾隆年製」篆書款。盃撇口，圈足。內施白釉。外壁軋道胭脂紅地上繪朵蓮紋三組，近足處環飾蓮瓣紋一周。底施白釉，青花書「乾隆年製」篆書款。

據清宮檔案記載，此類盃盤由「洋彩紅地錦上添花四周畫山水磁碗」演變而來。乾隆七年「九月初十日：司庫白世秀，副催總達子來說太監高玉交洋彩紅地錦上添花四周畫山水磁碗一件。傳旨：著照此洋彩紅地錦上添花四周畫山水碗，碗上山水花樣做杯盤，其杯做有耳杯，托盤或圓形，或葵瓣形，先做木胎杯盤樣呈覽，準時再做。欽此。《江西》」

小盃於1969年購自紐約Chait Gallery。

臺北故宮博物院藏相仿的盞托和小盃，見《華麗彩瓷‧乾隆洋彩》圖版9、10，其中圖版9的小盃和圖版10(圖一)的托盤與此盃與盤無論風格、紋飾上都非常接近。

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Provenance

The cup:
Chait Gallery, New York, 1969

Lot Notes

The application of the graviata technique creating scrolling, leiwen and lattice patterns on enamels covering the background of porcelain vessels reached its peak of refinement on imperial porcelains of the Qianlong reign, when the current cup stand and cup were made.

Compare the cupstand with a nearly identical example with slight differences in the composition of the landscape roundels and alternating purple and yellow lotus blooms rather than the yellow blooms seen on the present example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the exhibition Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch'ien-lung Reign, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 2008 and illustrated in the Catalogue, pp.62-63, no. 10 (fig. 1) where it is recorded that only two orders of this pattern were commissioned in the 7th year of the Qianlong reign.

Other examples of ruby and yellow graviata ground cups and stands in the National Palace Museum are published ibid, nos. 7, 8 and 9. Compare also a fine graviata ruby-ground covered waterpot sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1227.

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