Lot 2296. A Langyao slender baluster vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 15 in. (38.3 cm.) high. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 400,000. Price realised HKD 350,000. © Christie's Images Ltd 2012 

Of elongated baluster form rising from a spreading foot to a short waisted neck, the well-potted vase is covered overall in a crackled glaze of strawberry-red thinning gently to a paler tone at the rim, with the interior and base glazed white.   

Note: A langyao vase of this form, but of slightly larger size (17 in.), is illustrated in the Catalogue of the Morgan Collection of Chinese Porcelains, New York 1911, vol. II, pl. CXXXVII, and another of this type is illustrated in, Qing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, no. 1, where the shape is described as guanyin zun. See, also, the vase included in the S. Marchant & Son exhibition, Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, London, 9 - 25 June 1996, no. 3, previously in the collection of Stephen Junkunc III and sold at Christie's New York, 21 September 1995, lot 228.