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Lot Essay
Previously sold in our New York Rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 238.
Similar examples of the 'bee-hive' waterpots are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. 7a; in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, pl. 130; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 245; in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; in the Percival David Foundation exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, London, 1992, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 118; and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9. Two waterpots from the collection of K. S. Lo were included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 122 and 123; and another from The Jingguantang Collection, was sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 565.
Similar examples of the 'bee-hive' waterpots are in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. 7a; in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, pl. 130; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 245; in the National Palace Museum, Taibei, included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; in the Percival David Foundation exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, London, 1992, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 118; and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9. Two waterpots from the collection of K. S. Lo were included in the Min Chiu Society Exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, illustrated in the Catalogue, nos. 122 and 123; and another from The Jingguantang Collection, was sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 565.