Badama (Eight Great Numbers)

Set of eight classic shapes for pieces for the scholar's table. Clair-de-lune and peachbloom-glazes seem to have been developed to be used almost exclusively on these sets. To my knowledge two complete assembled sets are in museum collections: one in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, illustrated by S. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 237, and another in the Baur Collection, Geneva, illustrated by J. Ayers, The Peachbloom Wares of the Kangxi period (1662-1722), T.O.C.S., 1999-2000, vol. 64.

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