AN UNUSUAL ENAMELLED LANGYAO BULBOUS VASE

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AN UNUSUAL ENAMELLED LANGYAO BULBOUS VASE
KANGXI

The exterior covered with a transparent, crackle-suffused glaze of rich crushed strawberry tone ending neatly at the mouth rim where a crackled glaze of ivory and pale celadon tone continues into the interior, with sinuous dragons incised and drawn in black against a wide band of black striations below a narrow green border encircling the rim and a band of black key-fret encircling the foot, the interior of the base decorated with a yellow and aubergine dragon leaping after a flaming pearl outlined in black against a bluish-green ground--15in. (38.2cm.) high, cylindrical cloth box

Lot Essay

Cf. a similarly glazed vase of this shape, but smaller in size (21.4cm), included by J. Neils in the exhibition, The World of Ceramics, Masterpieces from the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982, Catalogue no. 133. Another similar vase of slightly larger size (40cm.) is illustrated by J. Ayers, Far Eastern Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1980, no. 198

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