A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT WATERPOT

KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT WATERPOT
kangxi (1662-1722)
Enamelled in green, pale aubergine, yellow, black and white, modelled as Li Taibo seated with his right arm around his broad baluster wine vat, wearing a green-ground robe reserved with stork roundels and his vat decorated with cracked-ice-pattern reserved with prunus, his head and tall arched hat remaining in the biscuit and his face with a smiling expression, minor restoration
6¾ in. (17 cm.) wide

拍品專文

Li Taibo is one of the most famous Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) poets, who was reknowned for his excessive drinking; many of his poems were on the subject of alcohol and how he was affected by it. He alledgedly died by drowning in a pool whilst drunk. Compare the similar figure illustrated Chinesisches Porzellan von Dr. Otto Pelka, Leipzig, 1921, pl.2.