Jingtai mark, Ming dynasty, 16th/17th century Raised on a high flared foot decorated with bands of fronted floral meanders and stiff lappets under a gilt copper molded lotus petal support, the u-shaped cup with everted rim decorated on the exterior with the 'Three Friends of Winter' pine, prunus, and bamboo enameled on a turquoise ground, the interior with a fine networks of ruyi heads radiating from a gilt medallion at the well, the keyfret banded and gilt foot with four-character incised Jingtai mark. 4 5/8in (11.7cm) high,转到 Chinese Works of Art Go
注脚:明 十六至十七世紀 銅胎掐絲琺瑯花卉紋高足杯 《景泰年製》款Provenance:Roger Keverne Ltd., November 23, 2001來源:Roger Keverne Ltd.，2001年11月23日The extraordinary detailed work in this stem cup, with an evenly-spaced depiction of the 'Three Friends of Winter" is a rarity in Ming cloisonné production where the material itself does not usually lend itself to such 'fine' details. For a warming bowl with the same subject, but with a slightly looser treatment of the decoration and dated to the sixteenth century, see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, 7 April 2015, lot 3726.The design does appear on Imperial Jingdezhen porcelain stem cups in the Ming Dynasty. For a Chenghua example (1465-1487), see Sotheby's, Hong Kong, The Meiyintang Collection, Part IV, 8 October 2012, lot 41.