Author: --
Size: D6.7cm
Signed and dated: Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty
Estimate:
Final Price: RMB 2,350,000
LITERATURE
Regina Krahl,Chinese Ceramics from the Meiyintang Collection,London,1994-2010,vol. 2,no. 775 - 777.
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 plum blossom representing flower of November. 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.
‘Simple beauty like a tree frozen with snow.
Branches moving in the wind full of clear fragrance.’