A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT
A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT

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

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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The domed body with waisted neck and incised with three foliated dragon roundels visible beneath a greyish-pink glaze with areas of fine crushed strawberry mottling, the interior glazed white
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam., wood stand
Provenance
Ruth Henschel Collection; Sotheby's, New York, 20 March 1976, lot 163.

Lot Essay

Compare other peachbloom waterpots illustrated by S. Valenstein, Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 rev. ed., pl. 138, no. 4; Koyama, Chinese Ceramics: One Hundred Selected Masterpieces from Collections in Japan, England, France, and America, Tokyo, 1960, pl. 108 (bottom); and J. Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. III, Geneva, 1974, nos. A305 and A313-316.

A similar example was also sold in these rooms, 16 September 1998, lot 92.

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