Lot Essay
Another langyao vase of this unusual form is illustrated in Masterworks of Chinese Porcelain in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1973, Supplement, no. 38.
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KANGXI
Details
A Langyao Water-Chestnut-Shaped Vase, Piqi Ping
Kangxi
The compressed body and tall, broad neck covered with a crackled glaze of deep crushed strawberry tone ending in a neat line below the white-glazed rim and pooling in an irregular line on the unglazed foot rim, the interior of the neck and the base covered with a finely crackled glaze of ivory tone
14¾in. (37.5cm.) high
Kangxi
The compressed body and tall, broad neck covered with a crackled glaze of deep crushed strawberry tone ending in a neat line below the white-glazed rim and pooling in an irregular line on the unglazed foot rim, the interior of the neck and the base covered with a finely crackled glaze of ivory tone
14¾in. (37.5cm.) high
Literature
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection: bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944, pl. XXXV, no. 72.
Exhibited
Cleveland, Ohio, The Cleveland Museum of Art, The World of Ceramics, 30 June - 5 September 1982, no. 133.
Special notice
Tax exempt.