Tax exempt.

PROPERTY BELONGING TO THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART SOLD TO BENEFIT THE ACQUISITIONS FUND*

A Langyao Slender Baluster Vase

KANGXI

細節

A Langyao Slender Baluster Vase
Kangxi
Covered with a crackled glaze of dark crushed strawberry tone thinning to pale greenish-grey on the underside of the flared mouth and falling irregularly on the lower body before pooling in a dark line just above the unglazed foot rim, the crackled glaze on the interior of ivory tone, the base glazed white
181/8in. (46cm.) high

注意事項

Tax exempt.

拍品專文

A langyao vase of this form, but of slightly smaller size (17in.), is illustrated in the Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York 1911, vol. II, pl. CXXXVII, and another of this type is illustrated in, Qing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, no. 1, where the shape is described as guanyin zun. See, also, the vase included in the S. Marchant & Son exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, London, 9 - 25 June 1996, no. 3, previously in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III and sold in these rooms, 21 September 1995, lot 228.