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A COPPER-RED BEEHIVE 'MAGU' WATERPOT, TAIBOZUN Xuande six-character mark, Kangxi (2) image 1
A COPPER-RED BEEHIVE 'MAGU' WATERPOT, TAIBOZUN Xuande six-character mark, Kangxi (2) image 2
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Lot 100

A COPPER-RED BEEHIVE 'MAGU' WATERPOT, TAIBOZUN
Xuande six-character mark, Kangxi

16 May 2024, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £23,040 inc. premium

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A COPPER-RED BEEHIVE 'MAGU' WATERPOT, TAIBOZUN

Xuande six-character mark, Kangxi
Thickly potted with deep rounded sides tapering to a short open neck, finely painted in rich underglaze-copper-red with Magu in her chariot drawn by a deer and accompanied by a female attendant and a crane amid rocks and plants, fitted box.
11.5cm (4½in) diam. (2).

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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價

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Provenance: Sotheby's London, 5 December 1995, lot 437
An important European private collection

來源:倫敦蘇富比,1995年12月5日,拍品編號437
歐洲重要私人收藏

Magu is a figure in Chinese mythology often depicted as a beautiful young woman with feathered robes and with a deer. She is associated with longevity and immortality, and is said to possess magical powers, including the ability to brew an elixir of life from sacred herbs. It is unusual to find a piece painted with figures in copper-red, it is used more typically as an overall covering on small porcelain pieces; see, for example, the beehive brushpot in the Tsui Museum of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV: Qing Dynasty, Hong Kong, 1995, no.7. For an apple-shaped jar painted with a floral design in underglaze-red, Kangxi six-character mark and of the period, in the Shanghai Museum, see Wang Qingzheng ed., Underglaze Blue & Red, Shanghai, 1987, no.118.

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