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A RARE FAMILLE JAUNE BRUSHWASHER
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The washer has shallow, slightly faring sides and is decorated in the interior with a qilin standing on a
rocky precipice above turbulent waves and below alternating panels of ribbon-tied babao reserved on a
diaper ground. The exterior is decorated with the Eight Daoist Emblems reserved on a wave ground.
5æ in. (14 cm.) diam., cloth box
$60,000-80,000

PROVENANCE
J.M. Hu (1911-1995) Collection.
Christie’s New York, 15 September 2009, lot 375.
This washer belongs to a very rare group of fnely potted, enameled and monochrome washers bearing
Kangxi reign marks. A famille verte example, from the E.T. Chow Collection, decorated with a dragon and
carp emerging from waves, was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11 April 2008, lot 3021, and another from
the T.T. Tsui Collection, decorated with butterfies and blossoming branches on a sea-green ground,
was sold at Christie’s London, 16 November 1999, lot 217. A black-ground green-glazed example with
a landscape scene, also from the J.M. Hu Collection, and later in the Greenwald Collection, was sold at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2814.
清康熙 素三彩麒麟紋洗 三行六字楷書款

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