Author: --
Size: D6.5cm
Signed and dated: Kangxi Period,Qing Dynasty
Estimate:
Final Price: RMB 1,000,000
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 narcissus representing flower of December. 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
A Private Japanese Collection.
Eskenazi,London.
‘The spring breeze plays with these gems when daylight arrives.
When the moon traverses at night,it sends ripples up the long dike.’