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A FINE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED VASE, LIUYE ZUN 清康熙 豇豆紅釉柳葉尊 六字楷書款

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF 尊小口外撇，長頸，溜肩，肩下斂收，高圈足。通體施豇豆紅釉。足牆
邊澀胎無釉，圈足內施白釉，青花書「大清康熙年製」楷書款。
THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
來源
The slender vase has tall rounded shoulders rising to a trumpet 香港佳士得，2005年5月30日，拍品1233號
neck, all under a peachbloom glaze of rich mottled plum tone
thinning in patches to a softer mushroom colour and concentrated 此尊造型纖巧俊美，釉色勻淨，盈潤如玉，為康熙單色釉瓷器中之佳
in a rich raspberry ring at the foot, the upper body suffused with 作。紐約大都會博物館舊藏一件器型相同的豇豆紅柳葉尊，足牆鑲金屬
moss green areas extending around the vessel. 邊，2015年9月15日於紐約佳士得拍賣，拍品918號。
6 º in. (16 cm.) high, box

HK$2,200,000-3,500,000 US$290,000-450,000

PROVENANCE

Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May 2005, lot 1233

Similar examples are illustrated by S. Valenstein, Handbook of Chinese
Ceramics, New York, pl. 138; by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics in the
Meiyintang Collection, vol. 2, p. 176, pl. 817; in Kangxi Yongzheng
Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 139, pl. 122, from the Beijing Palace
Museum; in the Special Exhibition of K’ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng, Ch’ien-
Lung Porcelain Ware from the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 8; by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection,
Geneva, 1972, vol. III, no. A303; by Liu Liang-yu, A Survey of Chinese
Ceramics, vol. 5, pl. 55, from the Shanghai Museum; included in the
Hong Kong Museum of Art exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter’s
Palette, 1984, illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 29; and by R. M. Chai
in his article ‘The Eight Prescribed Peach-bloom Shapes Bearing the
K’ang Hsi Marks’, published in Oriental Art, 1957, vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 130-
137, where he praises the elegant form of the vase. Compare also to an
example with the lower body fitted with a gilt-metal band, formerly in
the Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection, sold at Christie’s New York,
15 September 2015, lot 918.

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