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A ‘LANGYAO’ BALUSTER VASE, QING DYNASTY, 18 TH CENTURY, elegantly proportioned with rounded
shoulders rising from an elongated tapering base and spreading foot to a short cylinder neck and flared mouth, covered with a lustrous
crackle-suffused red glaze thinning at the shoulders and neck to a peach tone, pooling at the elevated stepped foot to a deep crimson with
striated mottling pouring over but stopping short of the unglazed foot ring, the recessed base and interior both applied with a translucent
pale blue glaze, wood stand (2)
⌲ژ̓㈭ 䗻㈲䛶㻭䴠ᄷ
Height 16¼ in., 41.3 cm
$ 40,000-60,000
A similar example can be found in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in the Catalogue of a
Special Exhibition of Ch’ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981,
pl. 1; and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, vol. 37, 1999, pl. 15; both are described as Guanyin zun
and attributed to the Kangxi period. Another related example previously in the E.T. Hall Collection, inv. no.
th
184, was sold at Christie’s London, 7 June 2004, lot 150.
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