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

細節

An Enameled Copper-Red Water Pot
Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1662-1722)
The finely potted globular body with a short waisted neck, delicately painted in underglaze-red, and green and black enamel with a blossoming rose branch, the white glaze with a soft bluish tinge stopping short of the foot to reveal the pale body
3½in. (9cm.) high

展覽

An Exhibition of Important Chinese Ceramics from the Robert Chang Collection, Christie's London, 2-14 June, 1993, no. 109.

拍品專文

This elegant water pot belongs to an elite group of small scholars objects made during the Kangxi reign which employed extremely restrained decoration executed in the rare combination of underglaze copper red and overglaze green, black, and occasionally aubergine, enamels. These wares are characteristically decorated around the base with either one or two floral sprays with underglaze copper-red blossoms borne on thin, sinuous stems. Also included in this group are dome-shaped jars with a wide mouth, known as 'horse's hoof jars', an example of which is in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco and is illustrated opposite a small jar virtually identical to the present lot by He Li, Chinese Ceramics: A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 287, no. 580.
Similar Kangxi water pots can be found in a number of famous collections, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Beijing, 1989, p. 41, no. 24; one is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in The Baur Collection, vol. II, 1999, no. 149; and another by R. Krahl, Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection, vol. II, London, 1994, p. 111, no. 737.