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Lot Essay
For a Song dynasty prototype of this vase see the longgquan celadon vase in the Metropolitan Museum illustrated in Oriental Ceramics, The World's Great Collections, Tokyo, 1977, vol. 12, no. 52.
A very similar clair-de-lune vase, also bearing a Kangxi mark, is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1972, vol. III, A 317, p. 183, and another, also with Kangxi mark, was included in the exhibition, Two thousand years of Chinese ceramics, Japan, 1992, no. 110.
A very similar clair-de-lune vase, also bearing a Kangxi mark, is illustrated by J. Ayers, The Baur Collection: Chinese Ceramics, Geneva, 1972, vol. III, A 317, p. 183, and another, also with Kangxi mark, was included in the exhibition, Two thousand years of Chinese ceramics, Japan, 1992, no. 110.