Each cup is delicately decorated to one side with a figure of Lan Caihe holding a flower basket standing upon a toad, and to the other side with a Daoist immortal standing on a lotus leaf, all reserved on an iron-red ground below a gilt rim. There is a xie zhu zhu ren zao mark to the base of each cup.
2.5/8 in. (6.7 cm.) diam.

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The hall mark xie zhu zhu ren zao may be translated as 'made by the Master of the Bamboo Studio'. Xie (cutting), is also the name of a valley in the Kunlun mountains. There, during the reign of the 'Yellow Emperor' Huangdi, it is said the first musical scale was made from varying lengths of cut bamboo.

A pair of blue-ground famille rose prunus bowls with similar xie zhu zhu ren zao marks were sold at Christie's King Street, 10 November 2015, lot 298.