A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT, TAIBAI ZUN

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

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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT, TAIBAI ZUN
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The domed body incised with three dragon roundels and covered with a glaze of mottled greyish-pink color repeated in a thin line on the inner edge of the white-glazed mouth rim and shading to a darker grey color above the foot
5 in. (12.7 cm.) diam., wood stand

Provenance

Emily Trevor, New York.

Lot Essay

See the footnote to lot 342.
John Ayers in the transcript of his lecture, 'The 'Peachbloom' Wares of the Kangxi period (1662-1722)', TOCS, vol. 64, 1999-2000, pp. 31-50, refers, p. 50, to these peachbloom-glazed wares as "perhaps the rarest and most outstanding product of the imperial kilns during Kangxi's reign".

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