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A CHINESE DOUCAI CHICKEN CUP.
Qing Dynasty, 18th Century.
Finely potted with rounded sides rising from a countersunk base to a gently flared rim, the exterior delicately outlined in underglaze blue and painted in bright translucent enamels of yellow, green, olive green and iron-red tones, one side with a cockerel turned back to see the hen lowered to observe one of the three surrounding chicks, the reverse with a further cockerel leading a hen and three chicks, the two scenes divided on one side by jagged underglaze-blue rocks with flowers emerging from them, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with a six-character Chenghua mark within a double square, 4cm H, 9.5cm diameter.
Provenance: European Private Collection, acquired in the 1960s.
清十八世紀?? 鬥彩雞缸杯,青花「大明成化年製」楷書款