KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

Comparable Kangxi-marked celadon-glazed water pots include the example in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, illustrated by W. B. Honey, Later Chinese Porcelain, pl. 7a; in the Beijing Palace Museum, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 147, pl. 130; in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, pl. 245; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in The Illustrated Catalogue of Ch’ing Dynasty Porcelain, no. 58; in the Percival David Foundation exhibition, Elegant Form and Harmonious Decoration, London, 1992, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 118; and in the Nanjing Museum, included in the exhibition of Imperial Porcelain from the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Reigns, Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1995, and illustrated in the Catalogue, no. 9. See, also, a similar example from The Y.C. Chen Collection (1922-2012), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2020, lot 3063.