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44 A LARGE ‘LANGYAO’ BOTTLE
VASE
㶭 恶 QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
⹟ 䩘 the globular body rising to a tall attenuated neck, glazed overall
䅁ġġġ 䲭 in a deep burgundy mottled with crimson, stopping neatly above
慱 the straight foot to reveal the bu# body, the interior and base
攟 glazed white and su# used with a network of Þ ne crackle, wood
柠 stand (2)
䒞
Height 16¾ in., 42.5 cm

PROVENANCE
Alice Boney, New York, 10th March 1980.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 712.
The term langyao is derived from Lang Tingji, governor of Jiangxi
province and supervisor of the imperial kilns from 1705 to 1712.
He is known for reviving monochrome glazes, copper-red in
particular.
A similar vase was included in the exhibition The World in
Monochromes, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 2009, cat. no.
169. One with a slightly broader neck is illustrated in John Ayers,
The Baur Collection, Chinese Ceramics: Monochrome-glazed
Porcelains of the Ch’ing Dynasty, vol. III, Geneva, 1972, pl. A 277.
See also a slightly shorter example in Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi
Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong
Kong, 1998, pl. 210. Similar examples were also sold at Christie’s
New York, 22nd March 2018, lot 767; 18th September 2014, lot
886; and 19th March 2015, lot 449.
$ 30,000-50,000
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