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

Details

A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL PASTE BOX AND COVER
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
2 3⁄4 in. (7 cm.) diam.

Provenance

Spink & Son, London, 7 August 1987
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 777
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Sold at Sotheby’s New York, Chinese Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Florence and Herbert Irving Gift, 10 September 2019, lot 42
Sold at Poly Beijing, 4 June 2021, lot 5019

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Lot Essay

Compare this lot with similar peachbloom-glazed seal-paste boxes in museum collections, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 141, no. 124; one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 321, no. 207-1. Compare also one sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 29 May 2013, lot 2101.

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