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

Vases of this mallet or 'horse hoof' shape with similar decoration in copper red are in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng (ed.) in Kangxi Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 108, no. 71; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Sekai toji zehshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 141; and in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Gu taoci ziliao xuancui, vol. II, Beijing 2005, no. 28, See, also, the example sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 3116 and another sold at Christie's New York, 18 September 2014, lot 795.