Page 67 - Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art II

•2207
A COPPER-RED-GLAZED
HIGH-SHOULDERED VASE
18TH-19TH CENTURY

The high-shouldered, tapering body fares
above the foot and is covered on the lower
body with a crackle-suffused glaze of
crushed-strawberry-red color that thins in
fne streaks before shading to pale celadon on
the upper body and cylindrical neck where
it continues over the fared rim onto the
interior. The base is covered with a very pale
blue-grey, crackled glaze.
15æ in. (40 cm.) high

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

Michael L. Vermeer, Atlanta, Georgia.

清十八/十九世紀 紅釉觀音瓶

65