A CELADON-GLAZED CARVED DOMED WATER POT
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A CELADON-GLAZED CARVED DOMED WATER POT

CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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A CELADON-GLAZED CARVED DOMED WATER POT
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
Carved on the exterior with swirling cloud formations and covered in a pale bluish-green glaze
3 ¼ in. (8.1 cm.) high
Provenance
H.M. Knight Collection.
E.G. Kostolany Collection.
With Nicholas Grindley, London.
Exhibited
Amsterdam, Rijksmuseum, Oosterse Schatten: 4000 Jaar Aziatische Kunst, 1954, p. 63, no. 309.
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Lot Essay

A number of these celadon-glazed water pots are found in private and public collections, more commonly bearing Kangxi six-character marks, including an example in the Beijing Palace Museum illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, no. 130; another in the Nanjing Museum, illustrated in The Official Kiln Porcelain of the Chinese Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2003, p. 107; an example in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch'ing Dynasty Porcelain, Tokyo, 1980, pl. 58; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, illustrated by W.B. Honey, Guide to the Later Chinese Porcelain, Oxford, 1927, pl. 7 a.; and another in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, fig. 245. An example from the T.T. Tsui and Greenwald Collections sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1 December 2010, lot 2815; and one from the collection of K.S. Lo was included in the Min Chiu Society exhibition, An Anthology of Chinese Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1980, nos. 122 and 123.

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