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VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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A FINE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED AMPHORA, Similar Kangxi-era amphora are in major institutions
LIUYE ZUN worldwide including the Palace Museum, Beijing, published
in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) Museum Collection Hong Kong, 1989, p. 139, pl. 122; the
Shanghai Museum, illustrated in the Zhongguo Meishu Quanji,
The elegant vase is covered in a glaze of varying pale plum and
Taoci, vol. 3, 1988, pl. 163; The Metropolitan Museum of Art,
apple green tones ending in a neat line where the biscuit body is illustrated amongst a group of wares in Oriental Ceramics, The
exposed above the countersunk foot. World’s Great Collections, 1982, vol. 11, col. 28; the National
6 º in. (16 cm.) high, Japanese wood box Palace Museum, Taipei exhibited in the Special Exhibition
of K’ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng, Ch’ien-Lung Porcelain Ware from
HK$1,000,000-1,500,000 US$130,000-190,000 the National Palace Museum, catalogue no. 8; and the Baur
Collection, Geneva, published in J. Ayers, The Baur Collection,
PROVENANCE Geneva, 1972, vol. III, no. A303. See, also, the example sold
An American private collection
at Christie’s New York, 15 September 2016, lot 918, from
The shape of this vase is sometimes described as guanyin the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and formerly in the Mary
ping, referring to the shape of the vase held by Guanyin in Stillman Harkness (1874-1952) Collection, and the vase also
many depictions, and said to contain ambrosia or magic with mottled glaze sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 May
elixir. It is also known as liuye zun, ‘willow-leaf vase’, owing 2005, lot 1233 and subsequently at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31
to its elegant form which resembles that of a willow leaf. It is May 2017, lot 3014.
one of the Badama or ‘Eight Great Numbers’, eight specific
vessels covered in a peachbloom glaze intended for the
writing tables of the court. For a rare glimpse of the badama ᪺༒ᶑ ㅭㅬ☾㕳ᘎ⮃ഭ Վಧ᜷ᕋᢎ
pictured together, see the eight pieces from the Jingguantang ϝᬝ
Collection sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 3 November 1996,
lot 557. ⧻இ☆՞Ⅷ⻦
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