A fine wucai 'rose' month cup, Mark and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 五彩月季花花神盃 《大清康熙年製》款

The poem on the present cup, as well as lot 3628, can be translated as follows:

    Unlike a thousand other species that tire out,

    This one alone blazes in red throughout the year.

Month cups depicting seasonal flowers accompanied by pertinent two-line poems, represent a classic design of the Kangxi period. Very delicately potted, they are painted in the proper wucai palette of underglaze blue and overglaze enamels, which was devised in the Ming dynasty, but rarely used in the Qing, when the underglaze colour was generally omitted. On these month cups the designs are generally sketched on the unglazed porcelain in a faint underglaze blue.

Slight differences in size, colours, writing styles and marks between individual cups and different months suggest that even these cups may not have been produced as sets of twelve, but perhaps issued consecutively, as the year evolved, to be assembled at the end. 

詩題：「不隨千種盡，獨放一年紅。」