Page 58 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

87-TALL BLUE AND WHITE VASE (K'ang-hsi)
Oviform with spreading foot, high shoulder, and cylindrical
neck expanding at the lip. Pure white hard paste porce-
lain of clear resonant note, with a brilliant glaze and an
all-over underglaze decoration in rich cobalt blue, varied
in tone, displaying the Indian lotus in large blossoms
worked with an elaborate scroll. Another floral motive ap-
pears in a narrow shoulder border, and on the neck a band
of palmations and a conventional border are separated by
a white molding. Under the foot the six-character mark
of Hsiian-Te in underglaze blue within a blue double ring
( apocryphal) . Has carved teakwood stand.
H eiqlit, 23% inches.

SPECIMENS OF WHITE PORCELAINS

88-PAIR WHITE "SOFT PASTE" VASES (Yung Cheng)
Graceful pear-shape on a deep and spreading foot, with
slender neck and expanding lip. Delicate porcelain, of the
so-called "soft paste" variety, with a milk-white glaze of
the smoothest eggshell type and softly brilliant, exhibiting
a crackle- in pale cafe-au-lait. Beneath the glaze may be
traced a decoration of floral or leaf ornament modeled in
the paste. The glaze, with crackle, is found under the foot
and also continues well down the interior of the neck. Have
carved teakwood stands.
H eiqlit, 7% inches.