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901 A YELLOW-GLAZED 清康熙ǭ黃釉暗刻團花紋盌ǭ雙圈六字楷書款 ~902 A RARE LAVENDER-BLUE CRACKLE-
‘MEDALLIONS’ BOWL GLAZED TRIPOD CENSER
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE Ϝ源 KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
WITHIN A DOUBLE CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722) 舊金山邦Ẃ斯
年 月 日
拍品 The deep censer of bombé-form is raised on three short legs and rises
The deep bowl is incised on the interior with a stylized floral 藍理捷
紐約
編號 to the slightly flaring rim, and is applied with two ‘C’-scroll handles.
medallion and on the exterior with four medallions and scrolling The exterior is covered with a pale lavender-blue glaze suffused with
cloud motifs above a lappet border. It is covered overall with a a network of black crackles, which thins slightly around the rim and
bright yellow glaze. stops neatly around the concave base. The interior is covered with a
finely-crackled pale-grey glaze.
4æ in. (12.1 cm.) diam., cloth box
$6,000-8,000 6º in. (15.8 cm.) across handles, hardwood cover and stand, cloth box
$20,000-30,000
PROVENANCE:
Bonhams & Butterfields San Francisco, 15 December 2009, PROVENANCE:
lot 8289. Christie's London, 15 May 2007, lot 250.
J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4572. J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4374.

A similar bowl with Kangxi mark is illustrated by R. Krahl The lavender-blue crackled glaze seen on this censer is rare. For
and C. von Spee in Chinese Ceramics from the Gulexuan Collection, a Kangxi-period bottle vase covered with the same lavender-blue
Germany, 2003, pp. 128-9, no. 97, and was previously sold at crackled glaze in the Freer Gallery of Art see Oriental Ceramics: The
Christie's London, 13 December 1976, lot 55. Another example World’s Great Collections, vol. 9, The Freer Gallery of Art, Washington
in the Percival David Foundation is included in the Illustrated D.C., New York, 1981, col. pl. 23, pp. 167-168.
Catalogue of Ming and Ch'ing Monochrome, London, 1973,
no. A599. Bowls of this pattern continued to be made during
the Qianlong and Daoguang periods. 清康熙ǭ藍釉冰ㅆ紋雙耳Ӳ足‐
Ϝ源
倫敦צ士得
年 月 日
拍品編號
(base) 藍理捷
紐約
編號
(another view with cover and stand)

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