AN UNDERGLAZE RED AND ENAMELED WATERPOT

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AN UNDERGLAZE RED AND ENAMELED WATERPOT
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The globular vessel tapering to the shallow foot rim and recessed base, finely painted in underglaze red of pale rose tone with two rose blossoms borne on leafy branches in green enamel outlined in black issuing from the base, the calyx of one blossom in iron-red, all against a creamy white glaze of even tone, mouth rim ground, tiny foot chips--3 1/8in. (8cm.) high

Lot Essay

Waterpots of this pattern and date are in the Baur Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A539, where Ayers records other in the Musee Guimet, in the Ashmolean Museum and in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 3, no. B702; in the Palace Museum, Beijing, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 24, and in the Shanghai Museum, Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 84. Others have been included in the Kau Chi Society of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1981, Catalogue, no. 144; in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, Catalogue, no. 42; in the O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue, no. 180 and in the exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 1993, Catalogue, no. 109. Compare, also, the example sold in these rooms, December 3, 1992, lot 335