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15-l\1IRROR- BLACK CL UB-SHAPED VASE (K' ang-hsi)
Clear vibrant porcelain of pure white hard paste, in cylin-
drical club-shape with slightly contracted foot, short, slop-
ing shoulder, cylindrical neck and flange lip. Brilliant
mirror-black glaze of delicate orange-skin surface, termi-
nating evenly at the foot and interrupted at the lower edge
of the flanged lip by a white ring; interior of lip and neck
glazed in white. With carved teakwood stand.
Height, 181;4 inches.

76-MIRROR-BLACK BEAKER-SHAPED VASE (K' ang-hsi)
Found sometimes among the polychrome enamels, this shape
is rare among the mirror-blacks. The body of the beaker
is of inverted pear-shape, slightly spreading toward the
foot, which is heavily molded; the neck contracts lightly
and expands into the customary trumpet lip. Sonorous
porcelain, coated with a pure black mirror glaze of the
most delicate variety of the peau-d'orange, interrupted by
two narrow rings of pure white glaze, one above and one
below the inflated central section of the body, and by a
necklet in the same pure white glaze near the center of the
neck, where it coats a band defined in the paste. Carved
teakwood stand.
Height, 17 inches.

77-MIRROR-BLACK BEAKER-SHAPED VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Heavy white hard paste porcelain, molded in form of an
inverted pear-shape vase with spreading foot, above which
rises a wide cylindrical neck which expands into a trumpet
lip. Covered with a black glaze of mirror brilliance and
the faintest suggestion of the orange-skin surface, which
finishes in a perfect line at the white-glazed foot and lip,
the interior of the neck also being glazed in white. Has
carved teakwood stand.
Height, 17 inches.