Lot 2101. A peachbloom-glazed seal paste box and cover, yinse he, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period (1662-1722); 2 7/8 in. (7.3 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price realised HKD 3,630,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013

The box and cover are of cushion form, covered with a mottled glaze of soft crushed raspberry tone suffused with pale greenish speckles. The recessed base is inscribed in underglaze-blue with the reign mark and covered in a transparent glaze.

Property of the Yiqingge Collection. 

Note: Similar peachbloom seal-paste boxes are in various museum collections, including the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Kangxi Yongzheng Qianlong, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 141, col. pl. 124; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1975, pl. 138; and the National Palace Museum, Taipei, included in the Catalog of the Special Exhibition of K'ang-Hsi, Yung-Cheng and Ch'ien-Lung Porcelain Wares from the Ch'ing Dynasty in the National Palace Museum, 1986, no.11.