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A FINE CARVED CELADON ‘CLOUD’ WATERPOT 清康熙 冬青釉雕如意雲紋馬蹄式水丞 六字楷書款

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF 來源
Diana D. Ashcroft 舊藏
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) 香港蘇富比，2000年5月2日，拍品609號

The gently incurving sides are finely carved to depict billowing 同類的康熙冬青釉水丞可參考一件倫敦維多利亞與艾伯特博物館藏品，
clouds of ruyi form rising in columns and trailing wispy tips beside 出版於W.B. Honey，《Later Chinese Porcelain》，圖版7A號；北京故宮
similar detached clouds, covered overall with a pale even celadon 博物院的同款例子，刊於《清代康雍乾官窯瓷器》，1989年，頁147，
glaze of lustrous tone, the countersunk base with a transparent 圖版130號；美國紐約大都會博物館的藏品，見於S. Valenstetin，《A
glaze. Handbook of Chinese Ceramics》，紐約，1989年，圖版245號；台北故
2 √ in. (7.3 cm.) high, box 宮藏品，見《故宮清瓷圖錄》，圖版58號；倫敦大維德基金會藏品，見
《Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration》，1992年，圖版118號；南
HK$800,000-1,200,000 US$110,000-160,000 京博物院的藏品，載於《清瓷萃珍：清代康雍乾官窯瓷器》，香港中文
大學，1995年，圖版9號；兩件來自羅桂祥博士的藏品，見《中國陶瓷雅
PROVENANCE 集》，香港，1980年，圖版122及123號；及一件先後為靜觀堂、葛沃得
珍藏，後於香港佳士得拍賣，2010年12月1日，拍品2815號。
The Estate of Diana D. Ashcroft Collection
Sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 2 May 2000, lot 609

A number of these celadon-glazed waterpots are in public and private
collections, including one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London,
illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. 7a; in the
Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong,
Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, pl. 130; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New
York, 1989, pl. 245; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included
in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; in the
Percival David Foundation exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious
Decoration, London, 1992, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 118;
and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition of Imperial
Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Chinese
University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9.
Two waterpots from the collection of K. S. Lo were included in the Min
Chiu Society Exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong,
1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 122 and 123; and another from
The Jingguantang and the Greenwald Collections, sold at Christie's
Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2815.

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