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70-TALL RUBY VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Oviform, of graceful proportions, with slightly spreading
foot, high shoulder, and delicately curved neck lightly ex-
panding at the mouth. Dense porcelain, which would un-
hesitatingly have been ascribed to the Mings were it not for
the perfect foot, which stamps it as a production of the
great Lang in the early part of the reign of K'ang-hsi. It
is one of the fine samq-de-bceui s, opulent in color, with tones
of depth and chromatic resonance. Jewel-like in some of
its notes, it justifies at the same time the title "ruby vase."
The glaze is brilliant to the degree of a mirror, and has a
peau-d' orange surface. It exhibits the characteristic crac-
kle, more noticeable in the lighter portions about the neck.
For the rest it is the richest of ox-blood, deepening about
the shoulder and lower body, where the clots of the coagu-
lated blood thicken, and around the foot where the density
turns the dark red toward brown. On the interior of the
neck and underneath the foot, a creamy-white glaze with
rich brown crackle. Has teakwood stand.
II eight, 161,4 inches.
( Illustrated)

71-LANG-YAO TALL VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Oviform, with lightly spreading foot, high, narrow shoulder
with gentle slope, and short wide neck expanding at the
lip. Clear, vibrant white porcelain, coated with a charac-
teristic sanq-de-bceui crackled glaze of rich quality, the
color in places dense, again lightly spread, and in sec-
tions exhibiting the brownish hue of coagulation. The sur-
face is brilliant, to the mirror degree, and partly smooth
and partly of the orange-skin effect. The glaze on the in-
terior of the neck displays pale celadon notes, with splashes
of the exterior red. (Slight repair at the lip.) Has carved
teakwood stand.
Height, 15% inches.
( Illustrated)