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

A number of these celadon-glazed water pots are in public and private collections, including one in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. 7a; in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, pl. 130; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 245; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; in the Percival David Foundation exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, London, 1992, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 118; and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9. Two water pots from the collection of K. S. Lo were included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 122 and 123; one from The Jingguantang and the Greenwald Collections, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2815; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31 May 2017, lot 3013.