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A RARE SMALL CARVED CELADON-GLAZED WATER POT Comparable Kangxi-marked celadon-glazed water pots include the example
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) Chinese Porcelain, pl. 7a; in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi,
Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, pl. 130; in the Metropolitan
The sides of the domed water pot are carved in shallow relief with swirling
Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,
cloud formations and covered with a pale bluish-green glaze.
New York, 1989, pl. 245; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in
3 in. (7.6 cm.) high The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; in the Percival
David Foundation exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration,
$40,000-60,000 London, 1992, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 118; and in the Nanjing
Museum, included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi,
PROVENANCE:
Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and
George Walter Vincent Smith (1832-1923), Springfield, Massachusetts,
illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9. See, also, a similar example from The Y.C.
acquired prior to 1910.
Chen Collection (1922-2012), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November
2020, lot 3063.
斯普菲博物館珍藏，拍賣收益將用於藏品購藏及維護
清康熙 青釉雲紋馬蹄尊 三行六字楷書款
來源:
史喬沃先生（1832-1923），斯普林菲爾德，麻薩諸塞州，入藏於1910年以前。

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