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Friday 18 September 2015 VARIOUS PROPERTIES
2150
Morning Session at 10:00 am precisely A MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED VASE
(Lots 2150-2289) KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

2150 The vase has a slender, high-shouldered,
tapering body that fares at the foot, and
6 a trumpet-shaped neck. The exterior is
covered with a lustrous black glaze in
contrast to the white interior.
18 in. (45.8 cm.) high

$12,000-18,000

PROVENANCE:

The Chinese Porcelain Company, New
York.
清康熙 烏金釉觀音瓶

2151
A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED BRUSH WASHER,
TANGLUO XI
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE
BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The compressed globular body is covered
with a glaze of soft rose color that thins to
mushroom around the middle of the body
and to a line of greyish-pink at the rim. The
interior and base are white.
4æ in. (12 cm.) diam.

$30,000-50,000

PROVENANCE:

Private American collection, acquired in the
1950s-60s.

This type of brush washer is described as being
of ‘gong’ shape, or tangluo xi, as it has a very
compressed body. It belongs to a group of eight
vessel shapes referred to as the ba da ma, ‘Eight
Great Numbers’, all covered in a peachbloom
glaze and thought to have been devised to serve
as requisite appointments for the Emperor’s
writing table. However, according to John Ayers,
‘The Peachbloom Wares of the Kangxi Period’,
Transactions of the Oriental Ceramic Society, vol.
64, 1999-2000, pp. 31-50, they may have been
made as gifts to be presented at court. To see a
similar washer within the context of a complete
set, see S. Valenstein, The Handbook of Chinese
Ceramics, New York, 1989 (rev. ed.), p. 237.

清康熙 豇豆紅釉鏜鑼洗
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