拍品专文
A new type of black enamel was developed during the Yongzheng period at imperial kilns in Jingdezhen under the supervision of Tang Ying, which unlike its 17th century predecessor that was matt and needed to be 'fixed' by a layer of clear green enamel, was glossy in texture and was used to great effect by the ceramic painters to simulate ink paintings, as seen on the current examples.
Compare to a similar cup formerly in the collections of Paul and Helen Bernat, and Goldschmidt, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 25; another similarly decorated Yongzheng cup, also formerly in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acquisition no. BMFA 59.24); and a faux-bois grisaille-decorated brush pot similarly painted with a continuous river landscape in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 290-1, no. 239.
Compare to a similar cup formerly in the collections of Paul and Helen Bernat, and Goldschmidt, sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 13 November 1990, lot 25; another similarly decorated Yongzheng cup, also formerly in the Paul and Helen Bernat Collection, gifted to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (acquisition no. BMFA 59.24); and a faux-bois grisaille-decorated brush pot similarly painted with a continuous river landscape in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains, Plain Tricoloured Porcelains, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 2009, pp. 290-1, no. 239.