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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, TAIBAIZUNܫ 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 un🤡derglaze-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 illustrat🦄ed on the front cover. Compare also a similar waterpot sold in these rooms, 4th April 2012, lot 3101.