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A FINE PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED WATERPOT, TAIBAI ZUN
Kangxi mark and of the periodThe dome-shaped vessel well-potted with graceful rounded sides rising to a short, waisted neck below an everted rim, lightly incised around the sides with three archaistic dragon roundels, and covered with a dusky-pink glaze with crushed strawberry-red patches, with a band of pale mushroom color encircling the neck, the six-character mark inscribed in cobalt-blue beneath the clear glaze that covers the recessed foot and the interior, wood stand, fitted box.3 1/2in (8.5cm) high (3).
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清康熙 豇豆紅釉團龍紋太白尊 《大清康熙年製》款Waterpots such as the present lot were an essential item for the scholar's desk, along with brush washers and seal paste boxes. A complete set of such objects in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is illustrated by Suzanne Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 237.Other examples are in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong: Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1989, p.142, pl.125; the Percival David Foundation, London, published in Illustrated Catalogue of Ming and Qing Monochrome Wares, London, 1989, no.580 and on the cover; and another is illustrated in The Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics, vol.IV, Hong Kong, 1995, pls. 5-11. An example with similar mottling and coloration to the present lot was sold at Christie's New York, 19 September 2007, lot 342.