Lot Essay
A waterpot of this shape is illustrated as one of the eight peachbloom objects for the scholar's table, all from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in Sekai Toji Zenshu, Shogakukan Series, vol. 15, no. 27; another such peachbloom waterpot of a greener tone from the Percival David Foundation is included in the same volume as nos. 24 and 25