A SMALL COPPER-RED AND ENAMEL-DECORATED GLOBULAR WATERPOT

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A SMALL COPPER-RED AND ENAMEL-DECORATED GLOBULAR WATERPOT
KANGXI MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

The well-potted body delicately painted on two sides with thorny rose branches rising from the foot rim, the blossoms executed in delicate shades of copper red and the leaves and stems in shades of green enamel detailed in black, minute glaze chip to mouth rim--3 1/2 in. (9cm) high

Lot Essay

Waterpots of this pattern and date are in the Baur Collection, illustrated in the Catalogue, vol. IV, no. A539, where Ayers records others in the Musee Guimet, in the Ashmolean Museum and in the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 3, no. B702; in the Palace Museum, Beijing, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, pl. 24, and in the Shanghai Museum, Chugoku Toji Zenshu, vol. 21, pl. 84. Others have been included in the Kan Chi Society Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1981, Catalogue no. 144; in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, Catalogue no. 42 and in the O.C.S. Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, Catalogue no. 180