Page 33 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

42-IMPERIAL YELLOW BOWL (K'ang-hsi)
Ovoid body lightly spreading, flaring at the lip; low foot.
Light and delicate, firm hard paste with a soft, sonorous,
musical note; coated on both exterior and interior with a
uniform monochrome glaze of imperial yellow, very bril-
liant, and revealing in various places on both surfaces a
rainbow iridescence. Underneath the white-glazed foot the
six characters of K'ang-hsi within the double ring, in un-
derglaze blue. Has stand.
Diameter, 714. inches.

43-LANG-YAO JAR (K'ang-hsi)
Oviform, lightly spreading at the foot, with short wide neck
expanding at the lip. Dense vibrant porcelain, the entire
body covered with a deep, rich sang-de-bmuf glaze, over the
greater part of the expanse the color being that of the
blood already well coagulated, a part revealing lighter,
fluent hues and marked by the "tears" of congelation. The
glaze is slightly crackled and has the orange-skin surface.
The foot is perfect-a mark of true Lang production-
and is glazed underneath in rice-color with a cafe-au-lait
crackle. (Slight repair at the neck.) Has stand.
Height, 6% inches.

44-ApPIJE-GREEN VASE (K' ang-hsi)
A form often called by the Japanese "Daruma," because
the lines take in a general way the outline of the charac-
teristic seated figure of the priest of that name in his robes.
Club-shape-that of the club of ovoidal body, resembling
the ten-pin-contracting only slightly to the short neck,
which is truncated, giving a wide mouth. Dense porcelain,
coated with a rich glaze of apple-green, flowing evenly
from the rim to a perfect foot. The crackle, brown of
varying intensity, is a most unusual one, in places suggest-
ing wisps of smoke taking their varying courses upward,
in places the denuded branches. of bushes in winter, and
again presenting the traditional lines of the crackles. The
rim and interior of the neck are glazed in a gray-white, with
a coarse crackle of chocolate-brown. Has teakwood stand.
Height, 614. inches.