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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
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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.

(base)

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