A FINE AND VERY RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED DECORATED WATERPOT

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A FINE AND VERY RARE UNDERGLAZE-BLUE AND IRON-RED DECORATED WATERPOT
YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN A DOUBLE-CIRCLE AND OF THE PERIOD (1723-1735)

Of compressed globular form, the small waterpot is painted with two underglaze-blue lappet bands around the neck and above the foot, all against an iron-red ground covering the exterior surface
2 1/2 in. (6.3 cm.) wide, box, stand

Exhibited

Min Chiu Society and the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, 1980, Catalogue, no. 117

Lot Essay

Compare to identical examples of the Yongzheng period, cf. the waterpot from the Wang Xing Lou Collection, illustrated in Imperial Perfection, Hong Kong, 2004, p. 104-5, no. 36; and another sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th November 1976, lot 576. A related waterpot of the same shape and pattern, utilising the iron-red rather than underglaze-blue as the main decorative motif against a white ground, from the Nanjing Museum collection was included in the exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 1995, pl. 61.

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