Outside the qing yongzheng carmine in pastel fruit grain horseshoe cup (a)

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• HKD 7280000
• USD 931840
• EUR 728000

and Japan this cup draw many kinds of fruits in a cup of heart, nuanced, is extremely rare, although looks be like simple, real need to be careful, in the embryo, fire and glazing and so on each link all needs to high skill and precision, in order to protect the finished product perfect. Such lines at the end of the cup in kangxi fruit and early yongzheng, due to the newly introduced powder, purple color, but in the early of famille rose porcelain column. The beauty of this new paint, in addition to see heart cup grain, more on the outer wall carmine red.
the same kind of cup, the other two pairs, only one record in the Julian Thompson, “Chinese porcelain ZhuangShao suijiang collection”, Hong Kong, 2009, 94, chart another pair sold at sotheby’s Hong Kong on November 29, 1976, no. 614. Can be better than a bowl shape 盌 example, triangle flowers pattern circle similar decoration, outer wall light pink colour, Yu Kangrui jun, the meiyintang China ceramics, vol. 2, London, 1994, 957 chart.
the shape of the cup, he saw a kangxi cases, for Gerald m. Greenwald old Tibet, sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on November 16, 1988, no. 366, and at Christie’s in Hong Kong on December 1, 2010, no. 2813. Another pair for Paul and Helen Bernat and collection, sotheby’s sale in Hong Kong on November 15, 1988, no. 49, and then sold at Christie’s in Hong Kong on November 27, 2007, no. 1759. See also a example, belong to Riesco Collection, see the Riesco a Collection of Chinese Ceramics Handlist “, Croydon, 1987, 159 chart.
this cup painted fruit grain, to make people think in the dried fruit flavors and soak the fruit tea, fragrant flavor, at the same time, also symbolizes the grandchildren. Such fruits are also found in meeting the bride marry when holding serve tea to the parents, or scattered in newly-married under the mattress, which can be pushed, such cup or the wedding to burn.