Lot 138. A copper-red-glazed 'Langyao' vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Height 14 ¼ in., 36 cm. Estimate: 5,000 - 7,000 USD. Lot sold: 20,160 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's.

the slender baluster body rising from a spreading foot to a waisted neck and everted mouth, covered in a deep copper-red glaze draining to white at the rim, suffused with a network of fine craquelure throughout, the interior and underside of the base covered with a crackled celadon-tinged clear glaze.

Provenance: Collection of Elsie Caroline Borden Hohlweg (b. 1910), and thence by descent.

Note: A similar example in the collection of the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Ch’ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, pl. 1; and another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, vol. 37, 1999, pl. 15. Both are described as Guanyin zun and attributed to the Kangxi period. Another related example previously in the E.T. Hall Collection, sold at Christie's London, 7th June 2004, lot 150.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 17 march 2021