UNDERGLAZE-BLUE KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN THREE COLUMNS AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED 'BEEHIVE' WATER-POT, TAIBOZUN
UNDERGLAZE-BLUE KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN THREE COLUMNS AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
Of beehive shape with short waisted neck, the exterior lightly incised with three chilong roundels, covered in a peachbloom glaze of varying mottled pink to crushed raspberry tones, the neck with some characteristic moss-green speckles and patches, stopping neatly around the rim and above the white-glazed base
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 16

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Lot Essay

Similar examples of taibo zun are illustrated by Valenstein in the Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, pl. 138; in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 11, col. pl. 28 and Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, pp. 34-35, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Other examples are illustrated in Chinese Porcelain in the Idemitsu Collection, p. 223; in the Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Dynsaty Monochromes in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, vol. I, pl. 55, also included in the Special Exhibition of Qing Dynasty Monochromes, cat. no. 3; in Oriental Ceramics, Kodansha Series, vol. 5, pl. 230, from the British Museum; in idem, vol. 6, col. pl. 51, from the Percival David Foundation; in the Meyintang Collection, Catalogue, Volume Two, p. 179, pl. 821; by Ayers in the Baur Collection, vol. III, nos. A 305, A 310, A 313-A 316; in Ming and Ch'ing Porcelain from the T.Y. Chao Family Foundation, no. 52; in the Wonders of the Potter's Palette, pl. 30; in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, p. 142, col. pl. 125, from the Palace Museum, Beijing and in the S.C. Ko Tianminlou Collection, vol. I, no. 130

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