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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE-FORM WATER POT, TAIBAI ZUN

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The domed body is incised with three dragon roundels and covered with a glaze of soft crushed-
strawberry red tone which shades to a pale greenish-beige on one side and around the neck, in
contrast to the white rim.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.
$200,000-300,000

PROVENANCE

Mary Stillman Harkness (1874-1952) Collection.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1950.
Water pots of this form are known as taibai zun, after the Tang dynasty poet Li Bai, who is
often depicted leaning against a large wine jar of similar form. They are also known as jizhao
zun because their shape resembles basketware chicken coops that are woven with small openings
at the top through which the chicks are fed.
Compare the Kangxi peachbloom water pot, formerly in the collections of Emily Trevor and
John B. Trevor, Jr., sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 28 May 2014, lot 3301.
For further discussion of peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi period,
see the note to lot 913.
清康熙 豇豆紅釉太白尊 三行六字楷書款
來源
Mary Stillman Harkness（1874-1952）珍藏。
紐約大都會藝術博物館，入藏於1950年。

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