Lot Essay
Compare a clair-de-lune garlic-head vase, dated to circa 1650-65, in the Butler Family Collection, illustrated in Seventeenth Century Chinese Porcelain, Virginia, 1990, no. 74, p. 124
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SHUNZHI EARLY KANGXI, 17TH CENTURY
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A CLAIR-DE-LUNE-GLAZED VASE
SHUNZHI EARLY KANGXI, 17TH CENTURY
The vase with low rounded shoulders rising to a tall, slender neck and a garlic mouth, freely incised around the body with peony and bamboo below a band of stiff leaves around the neck, covered overall in a pale-blue glaze thinning to white towards the rim and stopping neatly above the unglazed, flat base, minor base chips
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
SHUNZHI EARLY KANGXI, 17TH CENTURY
The vase with low rounded shoulders rising to a tall, slender neck and a garlic mouth, freely incised around the body with peony and bamboo below a band of stiff leaves around the neck, covered overall in a pale-blue glaze thinning to white towards the rim and stopping neatly above the unglazed, flat base, minor base chips
8½ in. (21.6 cm.) high
Provenance
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 72
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