SIGNED CHEN MINGYUAN, 17TH/18TH CENTURY

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A VERY RARE ARCHAISTIC YIXING JUE-FORM CUP
SIGNED CHEN MINGYUAN, 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Modeled in imitation of Shang dynasty prototypes, the vessel has a deep U-shaped body raised on three blade-form legs, and is crisply incised with a narrow band of stylized taotie masks, bridged on one side by an arched handle issuing from a bovine mask, all below two posts with waisted caps incised with double lines and C-scrolls that rise from the rim. Two seals, Chen Mingyuan, are impressed beneath the arch of the handle.
7¾ in. (19.8 cm.) high, fitted box

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Acquired in Hong Kong in the 1960s-1970s.

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This vessel bears the seal of Chen Mingyuan, who was active during the Kangxi and Yongzheng reigns (mid-17th to early 18th century). Chen Mingyuan was a very highly regarded ceramic artist, and indeed is generally regarded as one of the finest of all the Yixing potters, and viewed by many as second only to Shi Dabin.
A related Yixing jue with the same treatment of the tops of the posts, and also signed Chen Mingyuan, from the Alice Boney Collection, was illustrated by Terese Tse Bartholomew, I-Hsing Ware, China Institute in America, New York, 1977, p. 53, pl. 29. This example has a plain band on the upper body, and the seal mark is stamped at the top of the leg below the handle. Compare, also, an Yixing jue-form vessel with differently shaped posts, signed Chen Mingyuan, sold at Bonhams Hong Kong, 27 May 2012, lot 550.