KANGXI (1662-1722)

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A MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED VASE
KANGXI (1662-1722)
With globular body surmounted by a slender cylindrical neck and standing on a short tapering foot, covered on the exterior with a mirror-black glaze thinning to brown towards the rim and stopping neatly above the foot rim, detectable shadow of original gold-enamel chrysanthemum scrolls around the body below a band of tassles around the rim and stiff leaves around the neck, the interior and base glazed white
9½ in. (24.2 cm.) high

Provenance

E. T. Hall Collection, no. 283

Literature

ron in the Fire, Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, Oxford, 1988, p. 26, no. 93

Exhibited

Iron in the Fire, Oriental Ceramic Society Exhibition, Oxford, 1988, no. 93

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Lot Essay

'Mirror-black' is mentioned by Père de'Entrcolles who was at Jingdezhen in 1720 as a high temperature glaze coloured with low-grade Chinese cobalt (an iron-manganese-cobalt mixture). Because the glaze was fluid during the firing, low temperature and 'cold' gilding was suitable decoration

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