拍品專文
This type of seal paste box forms one of the ba da ma or 'Eight Great Numbers', a group of eight specific vessels covered in a peachbloom glaze.
A similar example from the Jingguantang Collection was sold as part of a complete set at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 557. Others are in museum collections including the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 141, col. pl. 124; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 138; and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong Porcelain, Taipei, 1988, no. 11.
For further discussion of peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi period, see the note to lot 913.
A similar example from the Jingguantang Collection was sold as part of a complete set at Christie's Hong Kong, 3 November 1996, lot 557. Others are in museum collections including the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 141, col. pl. 124; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 138; and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Special Exhibition of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong Porcelain, Taipei, 1988, no. 11.
For further discussion of peachbloom-glazed wares of the Kangxi period, see the note to lot 913.