A FINE FAMILLE-ROSE 'BUTTERFLY' CUP SEAL MARK AND PERIOD OF DAOGUANG |

the thinly potted cup of tall beaker form, rising from a short straight foot to a gently flaring rim, delicately enamelled on the exterior with three butterflies in flight and a branch of fruiting pomegranate, the base inscribed in iron red with a six-character seal mark

Collection of Simon Kwan.
Christie's Singapore, 30th March 1997, lot 248.

Imperial Porcelain of Late Qing, from the Kwan Collection, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1983, cat. no. 55.
Imperial Porcelain of Late Ch'ing from the Kwan Collection, The National Museum of History, Taipei, 1985, cat. no. 55.
Recent Acquisitions, Marchant, London, 2011, cat. no. 46.

Good condition.
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A closely related cup was sold in our London rooms, 10th May 2017, lot 235; and another formerly in the collection of the Norwegian collector Iver Munthe Daae (1845-1924) was included in the exhibition Recent Acquisitions, S. Marchant & Son, London, 2003, cat. no. 20.