Lot Essay
Compare a larger Kangxi example of the same shape, but with a celadon glaze and carved with a lotus scroll, illustrated by Walter Bondy in Kang-Hsi, Munich, 1923, p. 201.
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KANGXI (1662-1722)
Details
A PALE BLUE-GLAZED VASE, ZHI
KANGXI (1662-1722)
The pear-shaped body rising from a high, splayed foot to a wide flaring mouth, carved and incised around the body with a lingzhi scroll below a band of upright plantain leaves around the neck, covered on the exterior with a pale cobalt-blue glaze pooling to darker tones in the recesses, and stopping neatly above the unglazed ring foot, the interior with a celadon glaze, and the white-glazed base with a underglaze-blue leaf mark, base fissure
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high
KANGXI (1662-1722)
The pear-shaped body rising from a high, splayed foot to a wide flaring mouth, carved and incised around the body with a lingzhi scroll below a band of upright plantain leaves around the neck, covered on the exterior with a pale cobalt-blue glaze pooling to darker tones in the recesses, and stopping neatly above the unglazed ring foot, the interior with a celadon glaze, and the white-glazed base with a underglaze-blue leaf mark, base fissure
7¾ in. (19.6 cm.) high
Provenance
E. T. Hall Collection, no. 77
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