Lot 3044. A 'Langyao'-red bottle vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 42 cm., 16 1/2 in. Estimate 400,000 — 600,000 HKD. Lot Sold 500,000 HKD. Photo Sotheby's

the globular body rising to a tall cylindrical neck, covered overall in a thick bright raspberry-red glaze, streaking slightly down the sides and pooling just above the neatly trimmed tapering foot, the glaze further suffused with a tight network of crackles, the base applied with a crackled straw glaze.

Provenance: Yamanaka & Co., no. 2 (according to label).
Sotheby's New York, 4th June 1982, lot 228.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, Hong Kong, 08 april 2011