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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT, TAIBAIZUN MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI | 清康熙 豇豆紅釉太白尊 《大清康熙年製》款
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October 9, 06:06 AM GMT
Estimate
400,000 - 600,000 HKD
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Property from an Important Asian Private Collection
A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BEEHIVE WATERPOT, TAIBAIZUN MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI
亞洲重要私人收藏
清康熙 豇豆紅釉團龍紋太白尊 《大清康熙年製》款
of classic domed taibai zun form, the tapering sides rising to a rounded shoulder and a short waisted neck below a lipped mouth-rim, the sides delicately incised with three stylized archaistic dragon roundels, the exterior applied with a vivid crimson-red glaze transmuting to a beige-pink mottled with raspberry-tinged flecks imitating the skin of a ripening peach, the neck with a green-flecked, mushroom-beige concentration, the countersunk base inscribed with an underglaze-blue six-character mark in three columns
Diameter 5 in., 12.7 cm
Peachbloom waterpots of this shape known as taibo zun after the wine jar of the poet Li Taibai, belong to the eight peachbloom wares for the scholar's desk, of which a complete set in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, is illustrated in Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 237. See a similar example in the Percival David Foundation, London, included in the Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, cat. no. 580, also illustrated on the front cover. Compare also a similar waterpot sold in these rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 3101.