XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)

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AN IMPORTANT EARLY MING BLUE AND WHITE STEMCUP
XUANDE SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1426-1435)
The cup with rounded sides rising to slightly everted mouthrim, delicately painted with a scholar seated in a pavilion in observation of two small boys at play taunting crickets, within a fenced garden flanked by trees and plants, the characteristic ribbed stem with a spreading foot further decorated with a continuous landscape scene, the interior with eight sanskrit characters around the central character om, all within double-line borders
3 in. (7.5 cm.) high, Japanese box

来源

The Tsui Museum of Art
Previously sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 550

出版

R. Krahl, 'The T.T. Tsui Museum Collection of Chinese Ceramics', Orientations, December 1989, p. 40, fig. 17
The Tsui Museum of Art, 1991, pl. 66
Splendour of Ancient Chinese Art, Selections from the Collections of T.T. Tsui Galleries of Chinese Art Worldwide, 1996, no. 53

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A stemcup of this rare design from the C.P. Lin Collection was included in a joint exhibition the Percival David Foundation and C.P. Lin collections, and illustrated by R. E. Scott, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration: Four Dynasties of Jingdezhen Porcelain, 1992, no. 37, p. 47. The example from the C.P. Lin Collection was formerly in the T.Y. Chao Collection, and was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 238.

Two related stemcups but with a lady seated in a pavilion are also known. The first is illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Ming Dynasty, vol. 14, no. 182, p. 178; and another from the collection of Jean-Pierre Dubosc was included in the Exhibition of Chinese Art, Venice 1954, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 646, p. 176. A further stemcup decorated with two ladies seated in a pavilion from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Ming Xuande Ciqi Tezhan Mulu, 1980, no. 66.

Compare a similarly sized and shaped stemcup, inscribed with sanskrit characters on the interior and dragons amidst waves on the exterior, excavated from the Xuande stratum, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain of the Yongle and Xuande Periods, Excavated from the Site of the Ming Imperial Factory at Jingdezhen, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 189, no. 53.