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1. Date of sale known only for 1942.9.490. Warnecke, Hamburg: see Meister 1978?, 16, 023, repro. The
2. On the use of such water pots, see Li and Watt 1987,167, no. other is in the collection of the University Museum,
39, repro. Arts Council Gallery 1964, 67, no. 266, pi. 90, calls this Philadelphia, ace. no. 88-10-13, collection of Dr. Frank Crozer
form a brush pot of globular shape. Knowles. Peachbloom "beehive" water pots are more common
than pale blue, and the National Gallery has several. Rather rare
3. Valenstein 1989,239, no. 240, repro.; Lee 1970, no. 342, repro.; are yellow examples, of which the National Gallery has one,
Ayers 1972, 3: A319, repro.
1942.9.502.
4. See no. 1942.9.503 for a discussion of the National Gallery's 6. Chait 1957,137; Valenstein 1989, no. 241.
peachbloom water pot of this type and examples elsewhere.
Chait 1957,130, is the primary source for the claim that only eight 7. Bushell 1980, 308.
types of vessels, which he calls "prescribed," were produced in the 8. Bartholomew 1985, no. 32, discusses the symbolism of the
peachbloom glaze, and this view is widely accepted. Chait, how- pomegranate and reproduces a Yuan pot of said shape with
ever, acknowledges that there is no textual evidence for this foliate rim. A similar small globular pot dating to the
opinion. It rather represents what a Chinese adviser informed Yongzheng period is in Li 1989, 311, no. 140.
him was an accepted opinion among Chinese connoisseurs at 9. See Beurdeley and Raindre 1987, 151, pis. 213-214, for an
the time his article was written. example of two water pots whose marks are so disparate that
5. Research has thus far failed to uncover any published pale blue one is judged to be Kangxi, the other a nineteenth-century
water pots without necks, but it would be premature to claim product. Also, Garner 1970, 74-77.
they were not manufactured. In addition to the example donated
by Edwin C. Vogel (see note 3), the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York, has two pale blue water pots donated by Michael
Friedsam, 32.100.435 and 436. The former lacks a neck, but it is REFERENCES
not certain if this is its original state. 1911 Gorer: 74, no. 369 [1942.9.490-491].
At least two pale blue "beehive" water pots attributed to the 1947 Christensen: 30 [1942.9.490-491] [repro. p. 33:1942.9.491];
Kangxi period can be cited, one in the collection of August 1956: 30 [1942.9.490-491] [repro. p. 33, fig. 15:1942.9.491].

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