Property from Various Owners
A peach bloom glazed porcelain beehive water coupe
Kangxi mark and period
Its domical walls incised with three dragon roundels and covered with a mottled rasperry and moss-green layer beneath a celadon-tinged glaze that continues across thesix-character mark written in underglaze blue regular script on the recessed base, the original waisted neck and flared rim now replaced with a gilt metal mount.
5in (12.5cm) diameter
Its domical walls incised with three dragon roundels and covered with a mottled rasperry and moss-green layer beneath a celadon-tinged glaze that continues across thesix-character mark written in underglaze blue regular script on the recessed base, the original waisted neck and flared rim now replaced with a gilt metal mount.
5in (12.5cm) diameter
Sold for
US$ 8,750
inc. premium
Footnotes
- Provenance:
ex-collection Denver Art Museum
See a related screen from the collection of Elinor Majors Carlisle, signed Wu Jiusheng on the reverse, sold in these rooms December 20, 2011, lot 8249.
Category: Asian Art
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