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.