Author: --

Size: D6.5cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi Period，Qing Dynasty

Estimate:

Final Price: RMB 450,000

LITERATURE
Regina Krahl，Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection，London，1994-2010，vol. 4，no. 1728 - 1739.
Kangxi Six-Characters Mark
Delicately potted and surmounted on a short foot，the steep sides rising towards a gently everted rim，the exterior intricately painted with an early spring scene and design of lotus representing flower of June. The reverse inscribed with a ten-character poem in ‘kaishu’，and a seal mark，the base inscribed in underglaze-blue with a six-character mark within double circles.
PROVENANCE
Christie’s London，4th November 2008，lot 215.
Eskenazi Ltd，London.
‘The roots are like jade gleaming in the mud.
The hearts contain pearls when dew has descended.’