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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED ‘BEEHIVE’ Beehive waterpots of this shape are well-known 㶭⹟䅁ġġġ䘥慱⛀漵䲳⣒䘥⮲
WATERPOT with peachbloom glazes but those covered in
other monochrome glazes were produced in ˪⣏㶭⹟䅁⸜墥˫㫦
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
smaller numbers. A closely related waterpot in Ը๕
of classic ‘taibai zun’ form, the domed the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, is illustrated ⺿嗕⃳ɀ⌉伭炻䲸䲬炻1964⸜1㚰9㖍
hemispherical body with rounded sides tapering in Kangxi Porcelain Wares, Hong Kong, 1998, ⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷
to a short waisted neck, the exterior Þ nely pl. 228; one from the Qing Court Collection,
molded and carved with three coiled chilong is published in The Complete Collection of
medallions, the exterior applied with an even Treasures of the Palace Museum. Monochrome
milky-white glaze, the countersunk base with Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 111; another
a three-column six-character reign mark in in the Koger Collection, illustrated in J. Ayers,
underglaze blue Chinese Ceramics. The Koger Collection,
Diameter 5⅛ in., 13cm London, 1985, pl. 139, was sold in our London
rooms, 16th May 2012, lot 171; another from the
PROVENANCE Riesco Collection, illustrated in Edgar E. Bluett,
Frank Caro, New York, 9th January 1964. The Riesco Collection of Old Chinese Pottery
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). and Porcelain, London, 1951, pl. 61 (right), was
sold in our London rooms, 11th December 1984,
$ 80,000-120,000 lot 430; and a Þ fth example exhibited on loan
at Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, from
the collection of Mrs Yale Kneeland, was sold in
our New York rooms, 1st June 1994, lot 371, and
again at Christie’s Hong Kong, 26th April 1999,
lot 507. Compare also a similar waterpot sold
twice in our Hong Kong rooms, 20th November
1984, lot 471, and again, 5th April 2017, lot
3607.

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