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A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED VASE,
LIUYE ZUN
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND
OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The vase has an elegant, tapering, high-shouldered body covered in a
glaze of pale greyish-pink color with some areas of moss-green mottling
on the interior of the mouth.
5¿ in. (13.1 cm.) high

$40,000-60,000

PROVENANCE
Sarah G. Larson Collection.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned in 1980.
The shape of this vase is sometimes described as Guanyin ping,
referring to the shape of the vase held by many fgures of Guanyin, and
said to contain ambrosia or magic elixir. It is also known as liuye zun,
‘willow-leaf vase’, owing to its elegant form which resembles that of a
willow leaf.
Similar Kangxi-period amphore are in major institutions worldwide
including the Palace Museum, Beijing; the Shanghai Museum; the
National Palace Museum, Taipei; and the Baur Collection, Geneva. See,
also, the example from the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of
Art included in the sale Collected in America: Chinese Ceramics from
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie’s New York, 15 September
2016, lot 918. This vase was formerly in the Mary Stillman Harkness
(1874-1952) Collection.
For a discussion on peachbloom glaze, see the footnote to lot 726.
清康熙 豇豆紅釉柳葉尊 六字楷書款

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