A CARVED WHITE GLAZED WATER POT
A CARVED WHITE GLAZED WATER POT

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

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A CARVED WHITE GLAZED WATER POT
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The water pot is of tall columnar form with the gently incurving sides, finely carved to depict billowing clouds of ruyi-form rising from the base in trailing formations.
2 ? in. (7.3 cm.) high
Provenance
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 124

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Lot Essay

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

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