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Lot Essay
A number of identical water pots are published. One from the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelain, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 122, pl. 111. Another is illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, p. 167, pl. 139, where the glaze is described as 'moon-white' and the medallions are of 'a dragon biting another creature, and a bat'. Two other water pots are recorded, one in the Chinese University of Hong Kong Museum, illustrated in their 1995 exhibition Qing Imperial Porcelain of the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Catalogue, no. 3; the other in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, illustrated in The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, 1985, pl. 28.
Water pots of this beehive-shape are more commonly found with peachbloom glazes and it is rare to find a white-glazed example. It is also unusual to find the design of the roundels moulded in relief instead of incised as on peachbloom vessels, see Lot 1904 offered in the present collection.
Another example from the collection of Mrs. Yale Kneeland was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 507.
Water pots of this beehive-shape are more commonly found with peachbloom glazes and it is rare to find a white-glazed example. It is also unusual to find the design of the roundels moulded in relief instead of incised as on peachbloom vessels, see Lot 1904 offered in the present collection.
Another example from the collection of Mrs. Yale Kneeland was sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 26 April 1999, lot 507.