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PROPERTY OF AN AMERICAN PRIVATE COLLECTION Ralph M Chait Galleries 373
David A Berg 2992
A ‘CLAIR-DE-LUNE’ GLAZED VASE
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD 2000 9 21
2008 4 11
the nely potted globular body rising from a short, slightly
splayed foot to a slender cylindrical neck aring gently at
the rim, covered overall in a rich, glossy, soft pale-blue glaze
thinning at the everted rim and pooling around the foot, the
base glazed white with a six-character mark in underglaze blue
Height 8 in., 20cm

PROVENANCE Suzanne G Valenstein A Handbook

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York. of Chinese Ceramics 1989 241
Collection of David A. Berg, New York.
Christie’s New York, 21st September 2000, lot 373. Baur John Ayers Chinese
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 11th April 2008, lot 2992.
Ceramics in the Baur Collection 2 1999
Vessels of this elegant form and subtle coloration display
the great technical advances made at the imperial kilns in 177 Lodge
Jingdezhen at the beginning of the Qing dynasty, which saw
the creation of numerous monochrome glazes. The tian lan Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming
(‘sky blue’) glaze is among the most striking innovation of the
imperial kilns, and was achieved by diminishing the amount of Manchu Dynasties 1948 133
cobalt oxide in the glaze mix. Vessels covered in this delicate
glaze are often very nely potted, an indication that they 1987 7 11 205
were probably made in the latter years of the Kangxi reign, as
suggested by Suzanne G. Valenstein, A Handbook of Chinese 1999 88
Ceramics, New York, 1989, p. 241. 2015 10 7 3614

A similar vase in the Baur collection, is illustrated in John World s Great Collections Oriental Ceramics The
Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 52 12 1977
1999, pl. 177; one from the collection of Mrs. Enid Lodge
and Mr. F. Brodie Lodge, included in the Oriental Ceramic
Society exhibition Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming Manchu
Dynasties, London, 1948, cat. no. 133, was sold in our London
rooms, 11th July 1987, lot 205; and a slightly more globular
example in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The
Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum.
Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 88. See also
a slightly smaller vase of this shape sold in our Hong Kong
rooms, 7th October 2015, lot 3614.

The elegant silhouette of this vase is based on Song dynasty
prototypes, such as a celadon-glazed vase in the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, New York, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics. The
World’s Great Collections, vol. 12, Tokyo, 1977, pl. 52.

$ 200,000-300,000

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