A RARE ENAMELED 'OSMANTHUS' WINE CUP
Daoguang iron-red six-character seal mark and of the period
Delicately painted with three branches rising from a grassy verge and blossoming with yellow and red flower-heads that trail around the sides to the plainer reverse side, a well-written mark to base, the interior plain.
2 3/8in (6cm) diam.
Footnotes:
清道光 粉彩桂花杯 礬紅《大清道光年製》三行篆書款

For a group of four wine cups, one identical to ours, see Christie's, Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 73.

See also a pair of underglaze-blue Daoguang seal-marked wine cups with floral decoration of narcissus and roses rising from rockwork, that sold at Christie's, Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot 3432, and previously sold at Sotheby's London, 9 June 1992, lot 283.