CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES ET EPOQUE KANGXI (1662-1722)

Details

RARE POT A EAU EN PORCELAINE EMAILLEE 'PEAU DE PECHE'
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, MARQUE A SIX CARACTERES ET EPOQUE KANGXI (1662-1722)
De forme globulaire rappelant celle d'une pomme, marque à six caractères de l'Empereur Kangxi en bleu sous couverte à la base
Diamètre: 9,3 cm. (3 5/8 in.)

Provenance

T.T. Tsui collection

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Further details

A RARE AND FINE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED WATER POT
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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Lot Essay

This water pot belongs to an exclusive group of eight vessel shapes that are covered in this extremely desirable peachbloom glaze. Known as the ba da ma or 'Eight Great Numbers', the sets were especially devised in these classic forms to serve as requisite appointments for the Emperor's writing table. Complete sets are extremely rare, with one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, The Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, rev. ed., p. 237; and another from the Jingguantang Collection, sold in our Hong Kong Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 557 and now in the Baur Collection, Geneva.

See a clair-de-lune-glazed water pot of identical shape and also from Kangxi period, sold in our New York Rooms, 16/17 September 2010, lot 1408.

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