A FINE LANGYAO RED-GLAZED VASE, GUANYIN ZUN
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vase is of elongated baluster form rising from a spreading foot to a short waisted neck and slightly flared mouth, covered on the exterior with a crackled glaze of strawberry-red thinning gently to a paler tone at the rim, the interior and base with a crackled cream glaze.
17.¼ in. (43.9 cm.) high, box
Compare to a very similar Langyao vase but of slightly larger size (44.7 cm.) in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Monochrome Porcelains of the Ch’ing Dynasty, Taipei, 1981, front cover and no. 1.
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