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A FINE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED WATERPOT, TAIBAI ZUN
Kangxi mark and of the period Waterpots such as the present lot were an essential item for the
The dome-shaped vessel well-potted with graceful rounded sides scholar’s desk, along with brush washers and seal paste boxes. A
rising to a short, waisted neck below an everted rim, lightly incised complete set of such objects in the collection of the Metropolitan
around the sides with three archaistic dragon roundels, and covered Museum of Art in New York, is illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A
with a dusky-pink glaze with crushed strawberry-red patches, with a Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 237.
band of pale mushroom color encircling the neck, the six-character
mark inscribed in cobalt-blue beneath the clear glaze that covers the Other examples are in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi,
recessed foot and the interior, wood stand, fitted box. Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, Hong
3 1/2in (8.5cm) high (3). Kong, 1989, p.142, pl.125; the Percival David Foundation, London,
published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome
$80,000 - 120,000 Wares, London, 1989, no.580 and on the cover; and another is
illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol.IV, Hong
清康熙 豇豆紅釉團龍紋太白尊 《大清康熙年製》款 Kong, 1995, pls. 5-11. An example with similar mottling and coloration
to the present lot was sold at Christie’s New York, 19 September
2007, lot 342.

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