Selection of imperial porcelain over 93 years in three collections

5910 | Kangxi period,Qing Dynasty AN IMPERIAL PEACH-BLOOM GLAZED BEEHIVE-SHAPE WATERPOT

AN IMPERIAL PEACH-BLOOM GLAZED BEEHIVE-SHAPE WATERPOT

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Size: D12.6cm

Signed and dated: Kangxi period,Qing Dynasty

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Final Price: RMB 3,100,000


Kangxi Six-Character Mark
The domed body incised with three archaic style dragon medallions,covered overall in a soft even glaze thinning at the slender neck beneath the white glazed rim.The base with a six-character mark of Kangxi in underglaze blue and of the period,1662-1722.
▲ Another was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Qing Mark and Period Monochrome and Two-Coloured Wares,1992,no. 1,p. 15;
▲ Further example is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng,in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection,no. 206,p. 320.
▲ A complete set of peach bloom glazed vessels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,is illustrated by Sue Valenstein in The Handbook of Chinese Ceramics,p. 237.
PROVENANCE
1. From a famous Chinese family collection who moved to Japan in the 1930s.
2. Sold by Mayuyama and Co. circa 1940.