KANGXI PERIOD (1662- 1722)

Clair-de-lune-glazed wares were highly prized in the Qing dynasty and the colour was strictly reserved for imperial porcelain. It was first developed in the Xuande period, yet it did not gain prominence until the Kangxi period and mostly seen on scholar’s objects. An almost identical clair-de-lune jar is in the Palace Museum collection, illustrated in Gutaoci ziliao xuancui (Selected Information Regarding the Beijing Palace Museum Ceramics), vol. 2, Beijing, 2005, p. 127, no. 105. Another similar example is illustrated in Studies of the Collections of the National Museum of China- Ceramics- Qing Dynasty, Shanghai, 2007, p. 48, no. 30. Two similar examples sold at auction, one at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 June 1985, lot 29; another at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5 April 2017, lot 1111.