KANGXI

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A Rare Langyao Bottle Vase
Kangxi
The full, globular body and tall, slender neck covered with a crackled glaze of deep crushed strawberry tone thinning below the ivory-glazed mouth rim and pooling in an irregular line above the unglazed foot, the base covered with a crackled ivory glaze
175/8in. (44.8cm.) high

Special notice

Tax exempt.

Lot Essay

A similarly glazed vase of this form, but with slightly wider neck, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art is illustrated by W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, New York, 1944, vol. I, pl. 157 (bottom center); and another with shorter neck in the Baur Collection, Geneva, is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu, Tokyo, rev. ed. 1983, vol. 15, p. 195, pl. 255, where the more usual black-glazed version of this type of vase is illustrated, p. 194, pl. 251.

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