Lot 603. A rare celadon-glazed ovoid vase, Kangxi six-character mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1662-1722); 8 1/8 in (20.6 cm.) high. Estimate USD 8,000 - USD 12,000. Price realised USD 32,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2018

The ovoid body tapers to a wide cylindrical neck and is covered inside and out with a pale sea-green glaze that ends below the rim and pools in a thicker line above the foot, box.

Provenance: Christie's New York, 29 March 2006, lot 519. 
The Studio of the Clear Garden.

Note: A similar but slightly larger vase (21.2 cm. high) in the collection of the National Palace Museum is illustrated in A Special Exhibition of Qing Monochrome Glaze Porcelain, National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, p. 127, no. 75 and again in Great National Treasures of China - Special Exhibition in Kaohsiung City Loaned by the National Palace Museum's Seventieth Anniversary, Taipei, 1994, p. 251, no. 18. Another (21.2 cm. high) in the Qing Court Collection, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - 37 - Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, p. 139, pl. 127.

Christie's. The Studio of the Clear Garden: Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, 22 March 2018, New York