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906 A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL                                清康熙ǭ㎉㎈紅釉印色盒ǭӲリ六字楷書款
               PASTE BOX AND COVER, YINSE HE
               KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF   Ϝ源
               THE PERIOD (1662-1722)                               紐約☆՞Ⅷ藏
               The circular box and cover are of cushion form, and are covered   藍理捷
 紐約
 編號
               on the exterior with a glaze of faintly mottled greyish crushed-
               strawberry color which stops neatly above the foot.
               2√ in. (7.3 cm.) diam., cloth box
               $60,000-80,000
               PROVENANCE:
               Private collection, New York.
               J. J. Lally & Co., New York, no. 4713.


               This type of seal paste box represents one of the ba da ma or   Similar peachbloom seal paste boxes are in various museum
               'Eight Great Numbers', a group of eight specific vessels covered   collections, including the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
               in a distinctive peachbloom glaze. The glaze appears to have   Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 141, col. pl. 124;
               been developed during the Kangxi period, and is characterized   The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein in
               by blushes of red against a soft pink base color, sometimes with   A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 138; and the
               clear greenish or greyish mottled areas, giving an impression of   National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition
               delicate blushing skin or fruit ripening in the sun. This ‘blushing’   of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong Porcelain, 1988, no. 11.
               or ‘peachbloom’ effect was very complex to produce, requiring

               colorants to be blown onto a surface covered with transparent
               glaze, which was then applied with an additional layer of
               transparent glaze before being fired at high temperature.


































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