A CHINESE YIXING ZISHA 'PEACH' CUP.

20th Century, signed Yinxian.

Formed as half a peach fruit issuing from a thick gnarled leafy stem with smaller fruit and blossoms forming the base, a two character Yinxian seal impressed to the body near the handle, 8cm H, 10cm diameter.

二十世紀 宜興紫砂聖思桃盃，「寅仙」篆書款



Wang Yinxian (1943 – 2018) studied under the master potter Zhu Kexin (1904 – 1986) who was invited in 1959 to create a work inspired by the yixing masterpiece the “shengsi peach cup” in the collection of the Nanjing Museum. Wang accompanied Zhu during this process and she created her own version which was selected for exhibition in a Soviet Union exhibition in 1961. The creation of the peach cup, of which very few versions are thought to have been created had a profound and formative impact on her work. For example, a prunus trunk-form teapot similarly decorated and made by Wang Yinxian (1943 - 2018) in 1990 is reproduced in Selected Works of Contemporary Yixing Potters, Hong Kong, 1994, no. 3. However, the peach cup holds a pre-eminent position within her oeuvre. As such it has been widely published, see for example, Wang Wen and Qiu Chunlin, The Complete Works of Chinese Arts and Crafts Masters - Wang Yuxian volume, 2009, pp 70-71.A closely related cup by the same artist was also sold by lot 2649, in the sale Jing Xi Wonderful Made: Fine Modern & Contemporary Redware Teapots, China Guardian, 3 December 2013.





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