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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT ASIAN PRIVATE COLLECTION 清康熙 豇豆紅釉印泥盒
A RARE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL PASTE BOX 《大清康熙年製》款
AND COVER
MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI 來源：
香港佳士得2001年4月29日，編號534
the box and cover of shallow domed shape to form a
compressed sphere, covered with a brilliant mottled
peachbloom glaze of pinkish tone, transmuting to a pale liver
colour towards the base, the footrim with a neatly finished
groove around the outer edge
7.3 cm, 2⅞ in.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s Hong Kong, 29th April 2001, lot 534.
HK$ 800,000-1,200,000
US$ 104,000-155,000

Also known as the yinse he (‘seal colour box’), or ‘vermillion
box’, the present piece is one of the eight peachbloom wares
made for the scholar’s table as discussed in Ralph Chait,
‘The Eight Prescribed Peachbloom Shapes Bearing K’ang-Hsi
Marks’, Oriental Art, Winter 1957, vol. III, no. 4, pp. 130-137.
Similar seal boxes can be found in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A
Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 138; in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in Kangxi. Yongzheng.
Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, Hong
Kong, 1989, p. 141; and in the National Palace Museum, Taipei,
included in the Museum’s Special Exhibition of K’ang-hsi, Yung-
cheng and Ch’ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch’ing Dynasty,
Taipei, 1986, cat. no. 11. Compare also one sold at Christie’s
Hong Kong, 29th May 2013, lot 2101.

Mark

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