A pair of small ivory wine cups. Dated 1933 - image-1

Lot 375 Dα

A pair of small ivory wine cups. Dated 1933

Auction 1061 - overview Cologne
04.12.2015, 14:00 - Asian Art II - Chinese Paintings, Decorative Arts, Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 400 € - 600 €
Result: 3.472 € (incl. premium)

A pair of small ivory wine cups. Dated 1933

A pair of small ivory wine cups, turned, and displaying the immortal Zhongli Quan seated on a tiger skin and two boys straining wine through a hemp head cloth in a landscape with trees in fine-line engraving stained black and red. Inscribed Ge jin lu jiu, dated cyclically guiyu (1933) and sealed Yuan. An incised lily branch to the inside. At the base an apocryphal four character mark Kangxi yu zhi. (2)
Height 3.2 cm; diameter 5.2 cm

民國微雕象牙加彩色鍾離權葛巾漉酒圖酒杯
《源》款《康熙御製》款
來源:出自一對德國夫婦的私人收藏。他們曾在1930至1945年間在中國教授私塾,這些收藏正是那時作為對他們做出貢獻的肯定而贈與的,之后由家族繼承。

Provenance

Former property of a German couple who lived as private tutors in China from 1930 to 1945 and received these objects in recognition of their services, thence by descent