Page 49 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

72-TALL LANG-YAO VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Oviform, with high shoulder, spreading foot, and short neck
with expanding lip. Clear, vibrant white porcelain, coated
throughout the exterior with a brilliant glaze of orange-
peel surface and a fine crackle, which exhibits a variety of
the characteristic reds. Over the shoulder and a large
part of the body are to be found the hues of the fraises
ecrasees and ashes-of-roses, lower down the deep reds of
the sang-de-bmuf, and on the neck a rich, warm and bril-
liant cherry. The interior of the neck is gray-white, with
caie-au-lait crackle; and underneath the foot a character-
istic sanq-de-bceu] glaze, mottled and crackled, is found.
Has stand.
Height) 19%, inches.
( Illustrated)

73-MIRROR-BLACK CLUB-SHAPED VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Pure white porcelain molded in cylindrical club-shape with
slightly contracted and well-defined foot, high, flattened
shoulder, and short cylindrical neck with a molded ring
around its center and a short flanged lip. Coated with a
dense coal-black glaze of mirror quality, both edges of the
lip glazed in white. The black glaze reveals traces of its
early elaborate golden decoration from lip to foot. Carved
teakwood stand.
Height) 17% inches.

74-MIRROR-BLACK OVIFORM CLUB-SHAPED VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Pure white hard paste porcelain, the body slightly oviform
with a high shoulder, wide neck and very short everting lip,
coated with a most brilliant mirror-black glaze which ends
in perfection of flow just short of the foot. Lip and in-
terior of neck and the under portion of the foot glazed in
white. Has stand.
Height) 18 inches.