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PROPERTY FROM THE INDIANAPOLIS MUSEUM OF ART, SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ART ACQUISITIONS FUND (mark)

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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE 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 is covered with a glaze of greyish-rose tone
mottled in soft crushed-strawberry red in contrast to the white rim.
4√ in. (12.4 cm.) diam.

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE

Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Herzman Collection.
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana, accessioned in 1984.

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 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 at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28 May 2014, lot 3301, and another from the collection of
The Metropolitan Museum of Art sold at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2016, lot 915.
清康熙 豇豆紅刻團龍紋太白尊 三行六字楷書款

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