Lot 1780. A copper-red-glazed bottle vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 17 3/8 in. (44.1 cm.) high. Estimate USD 20,000 - USD 30,000. Price realised USD 22,500. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011. 

With bulbous body and tall tapering neck flaring slightly towards the rim, covered inside and out with a crackled glaze of deep, rich, crushed-strawberry color thinning below the rim and falling in an irregular line of heavy droplets atop the unglazed foot where some of the white underglaze is visible, the mouth rim and base covered with a crackled white glaze.

Provenance: The Earl Morse Collection, New York, September 1982.
Greenwald Collection no. 40.

Literature: Gerald M. Greenwald, The Greenwald Collection, Two Thousand Years of Chinese Ceramics, 1996, no. 40.