Lot 2801. A fine and rare enamelled and copper-red decorated water pot, matizun, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze-blue and of the period (1662-1722); 4 7/8in. (12.5cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 1,800,000 - HKD 2,600,000. Price realised HKD 3,365,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2019

The steep incurved sides terminating in a wide mouth with lipped rim, each side painted with a rose in bloom rising on leafy stems from the foot, the flowers in copper-red with the leafy stem in green enamel detailed in black, the interior and base glazed white, box.

Provenance: The J.M. Hu Collection
Sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 October 1995, lot 715.

Note: Similar examples bearing Yongzheng marks are found in museums and private collections worldwide, including one in the Victoria & Albert Museum, illustrated by Rose Kerr, Chinese Ceramics, Porcelain of the Qing Dynasty, 1644-1911, London, 1986, no. 86; one smaller (11.3 cm.) in the Shanghai Museum of Art, illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Hu, Hong Kong, 1989, no. 48; one illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Ch’ing Porcelain from the Wah Kwong Collection, Hong Kong, 1973, no. 87; and several sold at auctions, such as one sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27 November 2013, lot 3430; and another sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 6 October 2015, lot 149.