A FINE COPPER-RED AND ENAMEL-DECORATED WATERPOT
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A FINE COPPER-RED AND ENAMEL-DECORATED WATERPOT

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A FINE COPPER-RED AND ENAMEL-DECORATED WATERPOT
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The tapering, globular body with short neck and lipped rim, finely decorated with two blossoming rose branches rising from the countersunk base, each bearing two blooms executed in dark copper-red tone, one fully open, the other partially open, the branches picked out in aubergine and shades of green
3 1/2 in. (8.9 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Kangxi waterpots of this type exist in a number of museum collections, including one in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 40, no. 23; another illustrated by John Ayers in The Baur Collection, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A 539; and in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, section 3, no. B702.

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