Page 51 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

78- MIRROR-BLACK BEAKER-SHAPED VASE (K' ang-hsi)
Conventional beaker-form with a neck which tapers very
slightly before expanding as a trumpet lip. Sonorous
white hard paste with black glaze of brilliant mirror sur-
face and variegated metallic luster, flowing evenly from
the white-glazed lip to a perfect foot which is also defined
in white glaze. The affluence of its early golden decora-
tion, of which no vestige remains save under the lip, may
be seen in honorable imprint on the luminous surface; on the
body, Celestial eloquence in twenty-five caligraphic columns,
on the neck in fifteen columns; and on both body and neck
landscape and architecture and ornamental borders. And
everywhere a lustrous rainbow iridescence. Has carved
teakwood stand.
Height, 171;4 inches.
79-TALL SKY-GRAY JAR (Ch'ien-lung)
Ovoid, with high shoulder, and short neck with thickened
everting lip. Dense hard white porcelain, coated on both
exterior and interior and underneath the foot with a glaze
of sky-gray, softly luminous, uniform in quality and in
color throughout. It is broadly crackled, on all surfaces,
in caie-au-lait of slightly varying tone. This soft, delicate
gray in porcelain glaze was made in representation of the
color in the ancient Sung-Ko ware. Under the foot is the
imperial seal of Ch'ien-Iung in brilliant underglaze blue.
Carved teakwood stand in the lotus motive.
Height, 121j2 inches.

80- TALL CELADON JAR: CRACKLED (Ming)
Ovoidal with sloping shoulder and short, constricted neck
with full, thick lip. Dense stone-weight porcelain, clear and
vibrant, coated on exterior and interior with a luminous
celadon glaze of varying tone, running from the delicate
sea-green tint to the brownish-gray of surging shallows at
the shore line. It is marked in dark lines by a giant crackle
and a lesser, reticulate crackle, and is further crackled in
a warm caie-au-lait, Teakwood stand with five carved legs.
Height, 14% inches.