KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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An Unusual Langyao Bottle Vase
Kangxi period (1662-1722)
The globular body gently rising to a tall slender neck, and covered with a translucent, finely crackled glaze of crushed strawberry red color thinning at a band of upright leaves executed in underglaze blue below the white rim, the foot and interior covered with a crackled creamy white glaze
16 3/8in. (41.6cm.) high

Lot Essay

For other langyao vases of this unusual type, with additional decoration, see the langyao vase with black and green-enameled dragons around the rim illustrated by Helen D. Ling and E. T. Chow, Collection of Chinese Ceramics from the Hall of Leisurely Pastime, vol. I, Hong Kong, 1950, pl. 115, and the bulbous langyao vase with dragons incised and drawn in black encircling the rim and a black keyfret band encircling the foot, and a dragon enameled in aubergine and yellow on the interior of the base, sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 25 October 1993, lot 797.

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