Romance Among Blooming Roses The Meiyintang And Western Collection Of Kangxi And Yongzheng Imperial Ceramics

5020 | Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty A RARE WUCAI‘pomegranate blossom in May’CUP WITH POEM,HUASHENBEI

A RARE WUCAI‘pomegranate blossom in May’CUP WITH POEM,HUASHENBEI

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Size: D6.7cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 2,000,000

LITERATURE
Regina Krahl,Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,London,1994-2010,vol. 4,no. 1728 - 1739.
Kangxi Six-Characters Mark
Delicately potted and surmounted on a short foot,the steep sides rising towards a gently everted rim,the exterior intricately painted with an early spring scene and design of pomegranate blossom representing flower of May. The reverse inscribed with a ten-character poem in ‘kaishu’,and a seal mark,the base inscribed in underglaze-blue with a six-character mark within double circles.
PROVENANCE
Eskenazi Ltd,London.
‘The colour unfolds like the sun on pearl curtains.
The breeze bears the fragrance in the shade of the white-washed wall.’