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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED WASHER
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI

清康熙 豇豆紅釉鏜鑼洗

《大清康熙年製》款

with low rounded sides incurved at the mouth and supported
on a low tapering foot, the exterior covered with an attractive
mottled peachbloom glaze, the interior and base left white, the
latter inscribed with a six-character reign mark in underglaze
blue, wood stand
11.8 cm, 4⅝ in.

HK$ 50,000-70,000
US$ 6,400-9,000

The peachbloom glaze was notoriously difficult to achieve. To
manage the fugitive copper-lime pigment, it is believed to have
been sprayed onto a layer of transparent glaze and then fixed
with another layer, so as to be sandwiched between two layers
of clear glaze. The technique marks one of the great ceramic
innovations of the Kangxi period, but probably due to this
demanding process, it remained in use for only a short time and
was never revived again at a later stage.
A comparable peachbloom washer in the Palace Museum,
Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of
the Palace Museum. Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999,
pl. 19; another is published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the
Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 208.

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