A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED BOTTLE VASE

Details

A COPPER-RED AND UNDERGLAZE-BLUE-DECORATED BOTTLE VASE
KANGXI

The swelling globular body rising from a shallow, concave foot, surmounted by a tall neck flared at the mouth, decorated with three finely drawn animals including an ox, a lion and a mythical beast, each shown in profile in a recembent position and painted in copper-red with eyes picked out in underglaze blue, the copper-red varying in tone from bright cherry to pale gray, all reserved on a soft white glaze of even tone
9¼in. (23.2cm.) high

Provenance

C. T. Loo, December, 1937
Stephen Junkunc, III

Lot Essay

A vase of this type and size was included in the exhibition, The Wonders of the Potter's Palette, Qing Ceramics, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1984, Catalogue, no. 9. Another, of smaller size, in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, was included in the Special Exhibition of K'ang-hsi, Yung-chêng and Ch'ien-lung Porcelain, 1986, Catalogue, no. 6