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317 A FINE UNDERGLAZE ⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䛶㷼̶ᒖ⎃ᆞ⢕䜐ృ✽
BLUE, COPPER-RED, Ȩ๔⌲Ꮴ⛆Ꭱ㸪ȩ
AND CELADON-
GLAZED CENSER

KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD ҳ⎽
껻度⢕㡦䖤1989䎃1剢17傈管贫735
of bombé form, the exterior with a continuous
Mary Porter Walsh 1928 2012 佐询
riverside landscape modeled in slip for a multi-
秣秉豤㺢嫲1994䎃11剢29傈管贫367
dimensional surface, the distant mountains,
Marchant⧍侚1996䎃
nearby lodges, trees, and lone boatman on the
water in underglaze blue set amidst celadon-
glazed rolling hills, bright copper-red leaves ᆂ㻪
accenting the foliage, the interior white, the շImperial Porcelain of Kangxi Yongzheng and
base with a six-character mark in underglaze QianlongոS. Marchant & Son⧍侚
blue within a double circle, coll. no. 58. 1996䎃管贫11
Diameter 7¾in., 19.7 cm
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PROVENANCE
Je% rey P StamenCynthia Volk ⿻⧋❠俛
Christie’s Hong Kong, 17th January 1989, lot շ俒ꅷ⼾搭 : 悦誩㛔询䐁擳渿⚆櫙ո䋒ス
735. 饟2017䎃㕬晝15
Collection of Mary Porter Walsh (1928-2012).
Sotheby’s New York, 29th November 1994,
lot 367.
Marchant, London, 1996.
EXHIBITED
Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and
Qianlong, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1996,
cat. no. 11.
LITERATURE
Je% rey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin
Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Porcelain
from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017,
pl. 15.
Censers decorated in this technique are
rare, however several brushpots, vases,
and jardinières with this palette, texturing,
and subject matter survive. An example of
a brushpot of this type with a Kangxi six-
character mark from the Qing Court Collection
in the National Palace Museum is illustrated
in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum:
Enameled Ware of the Qing Dynasty (I), Hong
Kong, 1969, pl. 1.
$ 15,000-25,000

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