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Lot 16: A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' WATERPOT Kangxi

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Description

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'LOTUS' WATERPOT

Kangxi

Of lotus-bud shape, painted with six lotus-petal panels rising from the short slightly spreading foot, and each panel centered by a profiled lotus flowerhead with flaring upright slender leaves, all below a narrow chevron band at the shoulder and below a short neck.


2 3/4in (7cm) high

Condition Report

Generally, in excellent overall condition, save for a small narrow chip to the biscuit foot ring that may be original to the firing but unobtrusive. Brilliantly painted in bright violet tones in a very attractive penciled style. Recommended.

Provenance

清康熙 青花花卉紋蓮子洗



Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價




Provenance:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904), New York

Purchase by subscription, 1879

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1879-present




來源:

Samuel Putnam Avery (1822-1904),紐約

會費購藏,1879 年

大都會藝術博物館,1879 年迄今



See an identical Kangxi blue and white waterpot sold in our London rooms,
The Marsh Collection: Art for the Literati, 3 November 2022, lot 31, which was formerly in the collection of Sir and Lady Harry M. Garner and also published, illustrated and exhibited at The Oriental Ceramic Society,
Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, 14th to 19th Centuries, London, 16 December 1953 - 23 January 1954, no.279. Sir Harry and his wife Lady Hilda Garner donated much of their collection to the British Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum.

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