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The tangluo xi or 'gong-shaped washer' also known as a 'shallow coup' or 洗呈鏜鑼式，斂口，圓腹，圈足。洗外壁施豇豆紅釉，洗內及足圈內均施白
'writer's brush bath' is perhaps the most common of the surviving forms 釉，底青花書「大清康熙年製」楷書款。
from the ba da ma, the 'Eight Great Numbers', a group of eight scholar's
objects that would have been arranged on the emperor's writing table. The 北京故宮博物院、倫敦大英博物館及大維德基金會均藏同款洗。紐約大都
peachbloom glaze was reserved almost exclusively for these wares. 會博物館藏整套豇豆紅釉「八大碼」，見1989年紐約出版S. Valenstein著《
A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics》修訂版，237頁，圖版236號(圖一)。北京故
Two complete assembled sets of the ba da ma are in museum collections: 宮博物院亦收藏一例，載於《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器圖錄》，香港，1989年，
one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, rev. ed. illustrated by 頁140，圖版123(圖二)。
S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, rev. ed. 1989,
p. 237 (fig. 1), and another previously in the collection of the Tsui Museum, 拍賣市場上曾出現相似例，一趙從衍舊藏，於香港蘇富比1987年5月19日拍
Hong Kong, later sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 賣，拍品292號；另一例為胡惠春舊藏，於香港蘇富比2012年10月9日拍賣，
557, and now in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by J. Ayers, 'The
'Peachbloom' Wares of the Kangxi period (1662-1722)', T.O.C.S., 1999- 拍品105號；再比一例，拍賣於《雅靜清靈 - 康熙御瓷私人珍藏》，紐約蘇富
2000, vol. 64, pp. 31-50. A group of seven vessels was included in the 比，2020年9月22日，拍品113號。
exhibition of Chinese Porcelain from the 15th to the 18th Century, Eskenazi
Ltd, November 2006, catalogue nos. 4-10. 「八大碼」近年據說不只八款器形，應包括石榴尊，見J. Ayers著「The
Peachbloom Wares of the Kangxi Period (1662-1722)」，載於《Transactions of
In addition to the examples included in the sets cited above, examples the Oriental Ceramic Society》，卷64，1999-2000年，49頁。
of peachbloom tangluo xi similar to the present piece include one in the
Palace Museum Collection in Beijing, Kangxi, Qianlong, Yongzheng: Qing
Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p.140,
pl. 123. (fig. 2) Other examples are illustrated by S. Jenyns, Later Chinese
Porcelain, London, 1971, pl. 7, fig. 1; by M. Beurdeley, Qing Porcelain,
London, 1987, pl. 98; one is illustrated in Chinese Porcelain, The S. C.
Ko. Tianminlou Collection, vol. 1 Hong Kong, no. 129; another by R. Krahl,
Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, London, 1994, vol. II,
p. 179, pl. 820.
A few comparable had been sold at auctions, including one from the
collection of the T. Y. Chao Family Foundation, sold at Sotheby's Hong
Kong, 19 May 1987, lot 292; another from the J. M. Hu Collection, sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 9 October 2012, lot 105; and one sold at Sotheby’s
New York, Kangxi Porcelain- A Private Collection, 22 September 2020,
lot 113.

fig. 1 Collection of The Metropolitan fig. 2 Collection of the Palace Museum,
Museum of Art, New York Beijing
圖一 紐約大都會博物館藏品 圖二 北京故宮博物院藏品

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