Lot 199
CHINESE UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITH COPPER RED 'EIGHT BUDDHIST EMBLEMS' CUP
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG MARK AND OF THE PERIOD
Auction: 15 May 2026 from 10:00 BST
Description
清雍正 青花《 大清雍正年製》楷書雙圈款 青花釉裏紅八吉祥紋小杯
delicately potted with rounded sides rising from a short foot, the exterior painted with eight beribboned bajixiang emblems outlined in copper-red, all supported on a band of meandering leafy stem bearing quatrefoil flower blooms, the base inscribed with a six-character Yongzheng mark in underglaze blue within double circles
Dimensions
6.6cm diameter
Provenance
Private Scottish collection, Isle of Skye
蘇格蘭私人收藏，天空島
Footnote
The exquisite size of this cup is close to the small wine cup ('jiouyuan') mentioned in the Qing Court records, while its design derives from Ming dynasty Chenghua period blue and white or doucai decorated prototypes, see two cups included in the Special Exhibition of Ch'eng-hua Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1977, cat. no. 38, a doucai cup depicting the eight emblems surmounting a leafy scroll, museum accession no. Gu ci 故瓷018152N, and cat. no. 39, a blue and white cup which portrays the Buddhist emblems raised on canopies issuing from a leafy scroll, museum accession no. Gu ci 故瓷012569N.
For comparable underglaze blue and copper red ‘eight emblems’ cups, Yongzheng mark and of the period, one was offered at Bonhams Hong Kong, 30 November 2022, lot 126; the other offered at Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2013, lot 168; and a set of eight were offered at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 04 October 2011, lot 2052.
此杯小巧輕盈，接近清宮檔案記載之酒元（酒圓），即小酒杯，其紋飾及杯型仿自明成化青花或鬥彩小杯。台北故宮藏兩件鬥彩八寶紋小杯亦是同類設計，見《成化瓷器特展圖錄》，台北，1977年，編號38及39，館藏號：故瓷018152N及故瓷012569N。
數件青花釉裏紅八吉祥紋小杯近例，雍正款及年代，其一2022年11月30日上拍於香港邦翰斯，拍品126；再一2013年3月19日上拍於紐約蘇富比，拍品168；另有一組八件，2011年10月4日上拍於香港蘇富比，拍品2052，皆可資比較。
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