A RARE CLAIR-DE-LUNE-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A RARE CLAIR-DE-LUNE-GLAZED BALUSTER VASE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The slender baluster body applied below the rounded shoulder with a pair of small C-scroll 'handles', and the neck encircled by a fine bow-string band, covered with a pale sky-blue glaze that continues over the spreading foot and ends at the edge of the recessed foot ring
8 3/8 in. (21.2 cm.) high, box

來源

Christie's, London, 9 December 1985, lot 136.

拍品專文

A few vases with this elegant combination of shape and glaze have been published. A pair of the same size from the collection of Richard Bennett, Esq., is published by E. Gorer and J.F. Blacker, Chinese Porcelain and Hardstones, vol. II, London, 1911, pl. 161. Another pair in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, is illustrated by J. Ayers, 'The 'Peachbloom' Wares of the Kangxi period (1662-1722)', TOCS, vol. 64, 1999-2000, p. 48, fig. 35. One in the Asian Art Musuem of San Francisco, of slightly smaller size (8¼ in.), is illustrated by He Li, Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1996, p. 279, no. 541. And another (also 8¼ in.) is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 94, no. 87, where the glaze is called sky blue.