A RARE CELADON-GLAZED OVOID VASE

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

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A RARE CELADON-GLAZED OVOID VASE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The ovoid body tapers to a wide cylindrical neck and is covered inside and out with a pale sea-green glaze that ends below the rim and pools in a thicker line above the foot.
8 1/8 in (20.6 cm.) high, box

Provenance

Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 519.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Lot Essay

A similar but slightly larger vase (21.2 cm. high) in the collection of the National Palace Museum is illustrated in A Special Exhibition of Qing Monochrome Glaze Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, p. 127, no. 75 and again in Great National Treasures of China - Special Exhibition in Kaohsiung City Loaned by the National Palace Museum's Seventieth Anniversary, Taipei, 1994, p. 251, no. 18. Another (21.2 cm. high) in the Qing Court Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 139, pl. 127.

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