A PEACHBLOOM BEEHIVE WATERPOT

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A PEACHBLOOM BEEHIVE WATERPOT
KANGXI MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The rounded sides incised with three dragon roundels beneath a glaze of even, crushed strawberry tone suffused with darker mottling, thinning to mushroom speckled in apple green at the base of the short, waisted neck, with a thin line of strawberry color on the inside of the white-glazed mouth rim, hair cracks, minor restoration--3 1/2 in. (9cm.) high, box and stand

Lot Essay

Similar peachbloom waterpots are in various museums and collections worldwide, including, the Percival David Foundation Catalogue, section 6, no. 580; the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, Catalogue, pl. 55; the Baur Collection Catalogue, vol. III, nos. A 305, A 310 and A 313-316; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, 1989, p. 237, no. 234; the Avery Brundage Collection, Catalogue, pl. LXV (C); the British Museum, Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, vol. 5, 1981, no. 239 and one in the Widener Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, is illustrated by Chait, 'The Eight Prescribed Peachbloom Shapes Bearing K'ang Hsi Marks', Oriental Art, Winter, 1957, pl. 135 top