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A peachbloom-glazed waterpot, taibaizun
Kangxi six-character mark and of the period
The elegantly domed body tapering towards a short waisted neck and
lipped rim, the exterior finely incised with three dragon roundels, all
evenly covered in a sweet pink glaze with maroon speckles, the base
left plain with a six-character kaishu mark.
12.9cm (5 1/8in) diam.

HK$500,000 - 700,000
US$64,000 - 90,000

清康熙 豇豆紅釉暗花團螭紋太白尊
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款

The delicate peachbloom glaze is particular to the Kangxi reign and 此太白尊造型端莊優美，胎質細潤致密，釉下暗刻團螭紋，外壁滿施
deliberately uses the natural tendency of copper red pigments to 豇豆紅，釉色紅潤，發色極佳。豇豆紅屬於銅紅釉中較少見的品種，
produce uneven results for decorative effect. While the peachbloom 有時因為燒造缺陷而出現綠色苔點，但因色澤對比鮮明反而成為其特
glaze is characterised by attractive variegated and mottled red and 點。但此件太白尊通體一色，唯見釉面深色斑點均勻分佈，燒成難度
pale greenish tones, the present lot is notable for its strikingly even 極高。
glaze. Compare a similar peachbloom waterpot, with a similarly even
glaze but slightly darker pink in tone, illustrated in Imperial Porcelain 康熙豇豆紅太白尊由康熙十九年始燒造，其設計應出自內廷刑部主
from the Shanghai Museum, Amsterdam, 2011, p.51, no.26. 事劉源，因酷似唐代詩人李白的酒罈而得名。參看上海博物館藏
Compare also another related waterpot with an even deep pink glaze 一件類似的太白尊，著錄於《Imperial Porcelain from the Shanghai
and maroon speckles, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Museum》，阿姆斯特丹，2011年，頁51，圖26。另見紐約大都會
accession number 1975.1.1690. 博物館藏一例，博物館收藏編號1975.1.1690。另見香佳士得售出一
例，2005年11月28日，編號1318，以及仇焱之舊藏一例，後售於香
The term Taibai zun, refers to the famed Tang dynasty poet Li Bai 港蘇富比，2014年5月27日，編號727。
(701-762) who is typically depicted with large wine vessels of similar
form. These waterpots are part of a group of eight ‘peachbloom’
wares specifically for the scholar’s desk, a complete set is illustrated
by S.G.Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York,
1989, p.201, no.138.

See a similar example sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 November
2005, lot 1318; and another with more greenish speckles from the
Edward T.Chow Collection sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 27 May
2014, lot 727.

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