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206 - A Pair of Blue and White Floral Cups, Qing dynasty, Xuantong eight character mark and of the period, 1910,the thinly potted body finely painted with a series of stylized flowers with leafy stems set between double line borders at rim and foot, inscribed on the base in underglaze blue with eight characters reading Xuantong jiyou Yichun Tang zhi (made for the Hall of Everlasting Spring in jiyou year of Xuantong). An identical cup with the same rare mark in the Victoria and Albert museum is illustrated in Ming Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics London 1998, the catalogue of a joint exhibition of ceramics from the V&A and the Percival David Foundation, as no.65 on pp.150-151. The author remarks that Yichang Tang was the studio name of the collector Liu Shiheng, (1875-1937), alias Juqing, a native of Guichi, Anhui. W:8cm. [One in good condition, the other fair, but with a single small 8mm wide chip restored on rim] Acquired in Australia, 2001. Property from a South Florida Private Collection. Sold at Christie s New York, 14 Dec 2021, Lot 90. Link of detail photos: https://we.tl/t-HShnc6gN6LnbL9SV
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A Pair of Blue and White Floral Cups, Qing dynasty, Xuantong eight character mark and of the period, 1910,the thinly potted body finely painted with a series of stylized flowers with leafy stems set between double line borders at rim and foot, inscribed on the base in underglaze blue with eight characters reading Xuantong jiyou Yichun Tang zhi (made for the Hall of Everlasting Spring in jiyou year of Xuantong). An identical cup with the same rare mark in the Victoria and Albert museum is illustrated in Ming Wilson, Rare Marks on Chinese Ceramics London 1998, the catalogue of a joint exhibition of ceramics from the V&A and the Percival David Foundation, as no.65 on pp.150-151. The author remarks that Yichang Tang was the studio name of the collector Liu Shiheng, (1875-1937), alias Juqing, a native of Guichi, Anhui. W:8cm. [One in good condition, the other fair, but with a single small 8mm wide chip restored on rim] Acquired in Australia, 2001. Property from a South Florida Private Collection. Sold at Christie s New York, 14 Dec 2021, Lot 90. Link of detail photos: https://we.tl/t-HShnc6gN6LnbL9SV
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