A LARGE BLACK-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A LARGE BLACK-GLAZED BOTTLE VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The bulbous body rising to a tall, slender neck, the exterior covered in a lustrous black glaze ending just below the white-glazed lipped rim where a narrow line of smoky underglaze blue is visible, with faint traces of gilt design
14¼ in. (36.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Allen J. Mercher Collection; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1-2 November 1956, lot 157.
Alice Boney Collection; Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1-2 May 1958, lot 82.

Exhibited

Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 67.
On loan to the Portland Art Museum, 1 June 2006 - 22 June 2010; exhibited 2007-2010.

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Lot Essay

A similar black-glazed bottle vase was included in the exhibition, Iron in the Fire, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 10 May - 19 June 1988, pp. 82-3, no. 93, where it is noted that "about 1720, Père d'Entrecolles recorded that the Jingdezhen 'mirror-black' was a high-temperature glaze coloured with low-grade Chinese cobalt." Other vases of this type, are illustrated by J. Ayers, Chinese Ceramics: The Koger Collection, London, 1985, no. 137; and in the Min Chiu Society exhibition catalogue, Monochrome Ceramics, Hong Kong, 1977, no. 125.

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