AN YIXING 'PEACH' CUP

modelled in the form of a hollowed half peach on a leafy sprig

Formerly in the collection of Ludwid Bretschneider, Munich, purchased circa 1975 (by repute).

Compare a similar Yixing cup sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 24th May, 1981, lot 1542. A further peach-shaped Yixing cup was included in the London O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, 1964, Catalogue no. 309, and another in the China Institute in America Exhibition, I-Hsing Ware, 1977, Catalogue no. 45, in the Philidelphia Museum of Art.