A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL-PASTE BOX AND COVER, YINSE HE
A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL-PASTE BOX AND COVER, YINSE HE

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

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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL-PASTE BOX AND COVER, YINSE HE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The circular box and cover is covered overall with a soft mottled peachbloom glaze, with paler tones around the sides. The recessed base is glazed in white.
2 7/8 in. (7.4 cm.) diam.
Provenance
Christie's London, 6 November 2012, lot 290.

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Lot Essay

Compare this lot with similar seal-paste boxes in museum collections, including one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 141, col. pl. 124; one in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Ware from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 321, pl. 207-1; and one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 237.

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