Lot 38. A 'Langyao' baluster vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period. Height 18 in., 45.7 cm. Estimate 8,000 — 12,000 USD Lot sold 112,500 USD. Photo: Sotheby's.

the slender baluster body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck flaring at the rim, the exterior covered in a vitreous raspberry-red glaze pooling slightly at the foot and draining to white at the rim, suffused with a network of fine crackle throughout, the interior and underside of the base covered with a crackled ivory-colored glaze. 

Property from the collection of John F. Lewis, Jr.

Provenance: Parish-Watson & Co., New York.
Collection of James. W. Ellsworth (1849-1925), New York.
Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 18th-19th October 1945, lot 397. 

Sotheby's. Monochrome, New York, 15 sept. 2015