Beschreibung:

A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED SEAL-PASTE BOX AND COVER, YINSE HEKangxi six-character mark and of the period
Of compressed circular form set over a tapered foot, the exterior finely covered in a crushed raspberry-red glaze, some areas mottled with fine black flecks, the interior and base glazed white, the latter with a six-character mark in underglaze blue. 6.7cm (2 5/8in) diam. (2).Footnotes清康熙 豇豆紅釉印盒帶蓋
青花「大清康熙年製」楷書款
Provenance: Yamanaka & Co.Inc, New York
Parke-Bernet Galleries. Inc, 24-27 May 1944, lot 299
Hans (1888-1966) and Ludmilla Arnhold (1894-1976) acquired from the above (according to the collector's index card)
A European private collection
來源：紐約山中商會
Parke-Bernet Galleries. Inc，1944年5月24-27日，拍品編號299
Hans (1888-1966)和Ludmilla Arnhold (1894-1976)伉儷獲得於上處（據藏家索引卡片）
歐洲私人收藏
Peachbloom-glazed vessels rank amongst the most highly-regarded of Kangxi porcelains. Known as 'vermilion box' (yinse he), the present box is one of eight forms of vessels coated in peachbloom glaze, which were made for the scholar's desk. The glaze also referred to as 'apple red,' 'bean red', or 'drunken beauty,' required the utmost technical precision. To achieve such a glaze, a copper-lime pigment was blown through a bamboo tube onto a layer of clear glaze; then the surface was covered with another layer of clear glaze: this resulted in the variegated pink and occasional green tones, depending on the firing conditions.
Compare with three similar peachbloom seal paste boxes, Kangxi marks and period: the first in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S.Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989, fig.237; the second, illustrated in Kangxi. Yongzheng. Qianlong. Qing Porcelain from the Palace Museum, Hong Kong, 1989, pl.124; and the third, in The Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in K'ang-hsi, Yung-cheng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain Ware from the Ch'ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1986, no.11.
A similar peachbloom box and cover, Kangxi mark and period, was sold at Christie's New York, 15 September 2016, lot 917.