Author: --

Size: D6.7cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi Period，Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 1,800,000

LITERATURE
Regina Krahl，Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection，London，1994-2010，vol. 4，no. 1728 - 1739.
Kangxi Six-Characters Mark
Delicately potted of deep‘U’-shape with flared rim and a short straight foot，painted on one side in the wucai palette in underglaze blue and overglaze enamels with a prunus tree’s gnarled branches bearing white blossoms with stamens and calyxes，with some small shoots rising from the ground，a tall rock behind，a clump of monthly rose and another low rock to one side，and a younger flowering tree on the other. The reverse inscribed with a poem relating to the flowering tree in front，followed by the seal shang ，the base inscribed in underglaze-blue with a six-character mark within double circles.
‘Unlike a thousand other species that tire out，
This one alone blazes in red throughout the year.’