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A pair of famille-rose chicken cups
Qianlong fanggu marks, Republic periodEach painted with a young boy stamping his foot as he faces a rooster, hen and chicks gathered around garden rocks and flowers reversed by a long inscription in black enamel bearing an inscription by the Qianlong emperor followed by two of his seals, the recessed base bearing the six-character mark in underglaze blue seal script.2 3/4in (7cm) high
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The boy on the cup was identified as the young prodigy Jia Chang (born 713), at the age of 13 a skilled trainer of fighting cocks for the emperor. For a translation of the inscription as well as an example of an original cup from the Qianlong period, see Louise Allison Cort and Jan Stuart, Joined Colors: Decoration and Meaning in Chinese Porcelain, (Washington, D.C., 1993), p. 53-54 and p. 138, no. 64 (Sze Tak Tong Collection, as 6.0cm height, 6.5cm diameter of mouth).