A Langyao bowl, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
Lot 1365. A Langyao bowl, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 8¼ in. (21 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 10,000 - USD 15,000. Price realised USD 68,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2013
The bowl is well potted with wide flaring sides rising to an everted rim, and covered in a deep red glaze of crushed-strawberry tone thinning at the mouth rim and foot to a pale celadon tone, which also covers the slightly convex base, cloth box.
Provenance: J.M. Hu Collection.
Note: The present bowl is rare in its close adherence to its fifteenth century predecessors. The deep copper-red glaze and strongly everted shape of the bowl relate very closely to examples produced during the Xuande period, when Ming copper-red wares were perfected to an intense brilliant red tone known as xianhong. A bowl, dated to the Kangxi period, of similar form and size, but with a less everted mouth rim, was exhibited by the Oriental Ceramics Society, The World in Monochromes, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 2009 and illustrated in the catalogue, p. 76, no. 168.
Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics & Works of Art, New York, 19 - 20 September 2013