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