A doucai 'Chicken' cup, Qing dynasty, 18th century

Lot 3653. A doucai'Chicken' cup, Qing dynasty, 18th century; 6.5 cm, 2 5/8  in. Estimate: 500,000 — 700,000 HKD (63,695 - 89,173 USD). Courtesy Sotheby's.

delicately potted with rounded sides rising from a concave base to a gently flaring rim, the exterior intricately painted in soft enamels within an underglaze-blue outline, depicting a rooster, a hen and five chicks in a garden landscape with flowering peony branches growing from pierced rockwork, the interior with a central medallion enclosing lingzhi shrubs growing from rocks, encircled by double line borders repeated at the rim, the base with an apocryphal four-character Chenghua mark within a double circle, Japanese wood box inscribed by Fujio Koyama.