A fine and very rare famille-verte 'month' cup, Mark and period of Yongzheng | 清雍正 五彩牡丹花花神盃 《大清雍正年製》款

collects ion of Diana D. Ashcroft.

Sotheby's London, 7th June 2000, lot 133.

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倫敦蘇富比2000年6月7日，編號133

The present cup represents the fourth month and is painted with a cluster of peonies with four red blooms and one yellow, growing behind pierced blue garden rocks.

The scene is accompanied by the poem:

At dawn its beauty receives dew from a golden palm. 

In the evening the fragrance penetrates deep into the Jade Hall.

Famille-verte month cups are much more rarely found with Yongzheng than with Kangxi reign marks, and no complete set of Yongzheng cups appears to be recorded. Another cup of this date and design from the H.M. Knight collects ion, sold in our London rooms, 12th May 1970, lot 100; another from the collects ion of Beatrice and Henry Goldschmidt was sold twice in these rooms, 20th November 1984, lot 405, and 13th November 1990, lot 17.

四月，畫一叢牡丹，綻開紅花四朵，另見黃花躲鈷青石後。

詩題：「曉艷遠分金掌露，暮香深惹玉堂風」