Page 93 - Yamanaka co Auction catalog

158-"l\IING GREEN" BOTTLE-FORM VASE (Ming)
It is a question if such a vase, in this color, has ever been
found before; experts of wide experience and well-traveled
in China have never before seen one like it. Pear-shaped
body, its greatest ovoid expansion low over the base, where-
after it contracts in steep conical form to a long tubular
neck. It has a molded or thickened lip and a deep and
spreading foot. Dense white porcelain, coated with a green
glaze of peculiar tone, difficult to liken to any of the famil-
iarly named greens but eminently characteristic of the
period of its production, the }\,fing. Has teakwood stand.
Height, 8114 inches.

159-GRACEFUL TAI,L GREEN VASE (K'ang-hsi)
With high, sloping shoulder, and sides tapering very slightly
to the foot, which is flat and has a light bevel at the edge,
and is deeply recessed underneath; short contracted neck
with expanding lip. Dense porcelain with a clear ring,
coated with a luminous monochrome glaze of even quality
in the rare and tender green-with faint bluish suggestion-
of the young, new-grown bamboo leaf. The glaze yields a
delicate iridescence and has a remarkably fine crackle. Just
under the lip the crackle is of the minute fish-roe type, there-
after taking the aspect of a complex network of irregular
webs, with wider meshes, while through the whole are clearly
traced the meandering lines of a larger crackle, coursing in
more or less erratic spirals. The lip is glazed in the soft
chocola te-brown of the or bruni. Has carved teakwood
five-footed stand.
Height, 10114inches.