2 – M5253
Description
Chinese imperial porcelain yellow-glazed two-handled wine cup, erbei, thinly potted and incised on each side with a continuous anhua band of archaic style dragons facing each other with open mouths, between a pearl, all on a short foot rim and covered overall in an even pale-yellow glaze, pooling on the foot rim between two upright loop handles with curled ends, the interior glazed white.
The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi within a double ring in underglaze blue and of the period, 1662-1722.
2 11/16 inches, 6.9 cm diameter handle to handle, 1 9/16 inches, 4 cm high.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Sold by Yamanaka and , London, 7th December 1912, by repute.
- From the collection of Marcus Ezekiel (1854-1927), with original label.
- Sold by Sotheby’s London in their auction of Important Chinese Art, 3rd November 2021, lot 1.
- A similar example from the collection of George de Menasce is illustrated by John Ayers in Chinese Ceramics, The Koger Collection, London, 1985, no. 141, p. 169; another in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is illustrated by He Li in Chinese Ceramics A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, no. 533, p. 277, collection no. B60 P2339; a further example is included by Rosemary Scott and Jessica Harrison-Hall in The World In Monochromes, The Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 2009, no. 182, p. 83.
- A similar wine cup with identical mark, together with its original porcelain stand, is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, 240, pp. 358/9.
- A related wine cup with archaic dragon style handles is illustrated by Li Yi-hua in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Beijing, 1989, 147, p. 164; another from the collections of Sidney Earnest Kennedy and Captain A. T. Warre was sold by C. T. Loo, Paris, 15th November 1915, and included by Marchant in their exhibition of Recent Acquisitions, 2009, no. 30, pp. 70/1.
- A pale green-glazed example with related handles, together with its original porcelain stand, is illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Volume 37, Hong Kong, 1999, no. 154, pp. 170/1.
- Two facing dragons, long, form the rebus “happiness at reunion”, xi xiangfeng.
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