A FINE MOLDED CELADON-GLAZED WATER POT

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A FINE MOLDED CELADON-GLAZED WATER POT
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD

Of slender beehive form, supported on a shallow foot, delicately and lightly molded on the exterior with vaporous ruyi-form clouds rising in two columns from the base towards the rim, covered inside and out in a pale sea-green glaze darkening slightly in the recesses
3in. (7.7cm.) high
Provenance
C. T. Loo, January, 1958
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

Similar waterpots with a Kangxi mark are in various museum collections: the Palace Museum, Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 130; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., pl. 245; the Percival David Foundation, Catalogue, Section 6, 1983, pl. IV, no. 583; the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later Chinese Porcelain, London, 1927, pl. 7a; the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities, Stockholm, illustrated by Wirgin, "Chinese Ceramics from the Axel and Nora Lundgren Bequest", B.M.F.E.A., No. 50, 1978, pl. 52, no. 67; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; Tsui Museum of Art, illustrated in the Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 124. One from the Warre Collection was included in the O.C.S. exhibition, Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, London, 1948, Catalogue, no. 80; and two from the K.S. Lo Collection were included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, Catalogue, nos. 122 and 123