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24 mars 2015

A rare 'Langyao' red-glazed vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

A rare 'Langyao' red-glazed vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Lot 3116. A rare 'Langyao' red-glazed vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 40.7 cm., 16 inEstimate 700,000 — 900,000 HKD. Lot sold 875,000 HKD (112,875 USD). © Sotheby's

the baluster body elegantly rising from a spreading foot to a tall waisted neck and flared rim, the base of the neck collared with a protruding rib, the exterior covered in a lustrous rich red glaze of crushed raspberry tone, the glaze evenly suffused with a network of fine crackle throughout, the interior and recessed base covered with a crackled glaze with a faint bluish tint, wood stand.

ProvenancePurchased in Paris, 1990s

NoteThis large vase is notable for its unusual baluster form with swelling shoulders and tall flaring neck. Although no other closely related copper-red glazed vase appears to have been published, a line drawing of a similarly modelled vase is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue Ethereal Elegance. Porcelain Vases of the Imperial Qing. The Huaihaitang Collection, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2007, p. 398, fig. XI, no. Y, 4, where it is grouped together with yaoling zun vases, fig. XI, no. K, 3. Also known as sang-de-boef (‘oxblood’) for its intense red colour, the langyao glaze was developed under Lang Tingji (1663-1715), supervisor of the imperial kilns at Jingdezhen during the Kangxi period, who is renowned not only for creating innovative glaze recipes, but also for applying them on a new repertoire of vase shapes, such as the current example.

See smaller vases of related form, such as a Kangxi mark and period clair-de-lune glazed vase illustrated in Jan Wirgin,Chinese Ceramics from the Alex and Nora Lundgren Bequest, Stockholm, 1978, pl. 70; a copper-red and blue glazed example, illustrated in George J. Lee, Selected Far Eastern Art in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, 1970, pl. 361; and another example sold in these rooms, 26th October 1993, lot 323.

Sotheby's. Imperial Porcelain and Works of Art from a Hong Kong Private Collection, Hong Kong, 07 april 2015, 10:15 AM

 

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