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917 This type of seal paste box forms one of the ba da ma or ‘Eight
Great Numbers’, a group of eight specifc vessels covered in a
A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL PASTE BOX peachbloom glaze.
AND COVER, YINSE HE
A similar example from the Jingguantang Collection was sold as
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF part of a complete set at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1996,
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) lot 557. Others are in museum collections including the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong
The box and cover are of cushion form and are covered with a Kong, 1989, p. 141, col. pl. 124; The Metropolitan Museum of
mottled and speckled glaze of apple-green color suffused with pale Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
blush stopping neatly above the foot. New York, 1975, pl. 138; and the National Palace Museum,
2¬ in. (7.2 cm.) diam. Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Kangxi, Yongzheng,
Qianlong Porcelain, Taipei, 1988, no. 11.
$20,000-30,000
For further discussion of peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi
PROVENANCE period, see the note to lot 913.

Mary Stillman Harkness (1874-1952) Collection. 清康熙 豇豆紅釉「 蘋果綠 」印泥盒 三行六字楷書款
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accessioned in 1950.
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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