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

A similar water pot, possibly the one offered here, was included in the Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, The Arts of the Ch'ing Dynasty, London, 1964, cat. no. 305, illustrated, pl. 101 and again in The Chinese Scholar's Desk, 17th to 18th Century, at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1979, cat. no. 14.
A similar example in the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, no. 227, p. 342.
A celadon-glazed version from the Jingguantang Collection was sold in Christies Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 565