THREE MONOCHROME VESSELS

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THREE MONOCHROME VESSELS
18TH CENTURY

One a peachbloom beehive waterpot, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle and of the period, the sides incised with three dragon roundels under a mottled glaze of grayish-rose tone; one a copper-red-glazed stem bowl, Qianlong seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period, the deep rounded sides flaring upwards from a spreading pedestal foot encircled by a molded bowstring band, the exterior covered with a glaze of soft crushed strawberry color shading to a paler tone on the raised band and at the top of the stem foot, the interior glazed white; the third an apple-green-glazed bottle vase, 18th century, covered on the exterior with a pale green glaze suffused with brown-stained crackle, the interior of the neck and the foot with a crackled pale grayish-white glaze
Waterpot 5in. (12.7cm.) diam.; stembowl 7½in. (19cm.) diam.; vase 7in. (17.8cm.) high (3)

Lot Essay

Peachbloom waterpots of this shape are in many public and private collections. To see it within the context of the various peachbloom vessels made for the scholar's table see Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 238. Another set from the Jingguantang Collection was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, November 3, 1996, lot 557

For an example of a smaller vase with similar apple-green glaze see Hobson, The Later Ceramic Wares of China, London, 1925, pl. XXIII, fig. 1. See, also, Krahl, op. cit., where the composition of the glaze is described in detail as a crackled Ge-type glaze over which copper green is applied for a second firing