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A RARE WHITE-GLAZED WATERPOT, TAIBAI ZUN 清康熙 白釉太白尊 三行六字楷書款
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE 小口微侈，短頸溜肩，鼓腹圓滿，暗刻龍紋三團，通體施白
AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
釉，皎潔靜穆，清麗雅緻。
The domed body incised with three foliated dragon roundels below the waisted neck
來源:
4√ in. (12.1 cm.) diam.
Cathay Gallery, 芝加哥，1987年11月16日。
$80,000-120,000 詹姆斯及瑪麗蓮．阿爾斯多夫珍藏，芝加哥。

PROVENANCE:
同類白釉太白尊刊獻有緒，諸例如下：清宮舊藏，載於《故
Cathay Gallery, Chicago, 16 November 1987.
宮博物院藏文物珍品全集—卷37—顏色釉》，1999年，頁
The James and Marilynn Alsdorf Collection, Chicago.
122，圖版111；J. Ayers著，《The Koger Collection》，倫
敦，1985年，頁167，圖版139，其釉色為月牙白，刻蝙蝠瑞
This distinctive vessel form is more commonly found covered in a peachbloom 獸龍紋；《清瓷萃珍：清代康雍乾官窰瓷器》，香港中文大
glaze; white-glazed examples such as the present water pot are considerably more rare. 學文物館，香港，1995年，編號3；《清瓷薈錦：香港藝術館
A number of identical white-glazed water pots have been published. One from the 清代陶瓷》，香港藝術館，1985年，編號28。
Qing Court Collection, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum- 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 122, pl. 111. Another is
illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, p. 167,
pl. 139, where the glaze is described as ‘moon-white’ and the medallions are of “a
dragon biting another creature, and a bat”. Two further examples include one in the
Chinese University of Hong Kong Museum, illustrated in their 1995 exhibition Qing
Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Cat., no. 3; and one in
the Hong Kong Museum of Art, illustrated in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1985,
pl. 28.

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