CHENGHUA MARK, KANGXI

A Kangxi-marked bruspot of this form similarly painted with shou characters, but in underglaze red, is illustrated in Zhongguo lidai taoci xuanji (Selected Chinese Ceramics from Han to Qing Dynasties), Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1990, p. 262, no. 129; and another also painted in underglaze red and raised on shallow supports, is illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 37, np. 20. See, also, the brushpot of this form painted in underglaze blue with poetic inscriptions, also bearing a Chenghua mark, but of Kangxi date, included in the exhibition, Splendour of the Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 9 June - 2 August 1992, no. 129.