A 'Langyao' bottle vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

12 octobre 2013

A 'Langyao' bottle vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722)

Lot 3142. A 'Langyao' bottle vase, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period; 35.1 cm., 13 3/4 in. Estimate 700,000 -900,000 HKD. Lot sold 2,920,000 HKD. Photo: Sotheby's 2013.

the pear-shaped body surmounted by a tall slender neck and gently everted rim, supported on narrow recessed base and low tapered foot, covered with a copper-red glaze of deep crushed-strawberry colour draining to white from the rim and suffused throughout with a network of fine crackles, the glaze transmuting to a green-tinged transparent glaze toward the foot and neatly stopping above the unglazed footring revealing the white body beneath, the interior and the base reserved in white

Provenance: Collection of W.C. Alexander.
Sotheby's London, 7th May 1931, lot 235.
Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark.
Sotheby's London, 25th March 1975, lot 145.
Sotheby's London, 10th December 1991, lot 279.
The Jingguantang Collection.
Christie's New York, 20th March 1997, lot 107.

Exposition: Austelling Chinesischer Kunst, Preussische Akadermie der Kunst, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 817.
Exhibition of Monochrome Porcelain of the Ming and Manchu Dynasties, Oriental Ceramic Society, London, 1948, cat. no. 117.

Litterature: Edgar E. Bluett, ‘Chinese Pottery and Porcelain in the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Clark, pt. VI’, Apollo, May 1934, p. 236, fig. 1.
The Tsui Museum of Art. Chinese Ceramics IV, Hong Kong, 1995, pl. 4.

A related vase, but with a slightly more slender neck, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, is illustrated in He Li, Chinese Ceramics. A New Comprehensive Survey, New York, 1996, pl. 550; a slightly larger example, from the Pierpont Morgan collection, was included in the International Exhibition of Chinese Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London, 1935, cat. no. 2298; and a third vase is published in A.W. Bahr, Old Chinese Porcelain and Works of Art in China, London, 1911, pl. XXVI.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art. Hong Kong | 08 Oct 2013