A LANGYAO-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE

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A LANGYAO-GLAZED PEAR-SHAPED VASE
KANGXI

The elegant body covered with a crackled glaze of rich crushed strawberry tone shading to mushroom on the flared mouth rim and with some darker mottling above a grayish green area on the lower body on one side, the ivory glaze of the mouth rim, interior and base suffused with a fine crackle
13 7/8in. (35.2cm.) high, box

Literature

The Tsui Musuem of Art, Chinese Ceramics IV, Hong Kong, 1995, no. 4

Exhibited

London, Oriental Ceramic Society, Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, 1948, no. 117

Lot Essay

Compare the vase of this type and approximate size with slightly more slender neck in the collection of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, p. 281, no. 550