Sale 9082
New York, Park Avenue
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22 March 1999
Price realised
USD 16,100
Estimate
A LANGYAO PEAR-SHAPED VASE Kangxi The exterior covered with a crackled glaze of rich crushed strawberry tone thinning to mushroom and pale celadon at the slightly flared mouth rim and continuing onto the interior, the glaze pooling to an even darker hue on the spreading foot 14.3/8in. (36.5cm.) high
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Compare the similar vase included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935-36, Catalogue, no. 2301.
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