A Langyao high-shouldered vase, China, Kangxi period. Estimate 6000/8000 €. Sold 9.000 €. Photo Nagel

with a high-shouldered, tapering body that flares at the base, and a cylindrical neck with slightly everted rim, is covered on the exterior with a crackled glaze of dark crushed-strawberry color that drains to mushroom on the upper part of the neck. The interior of the neck and the base are also covered with a crackled glaze of mushroom-greenish color. H. 41,2 cm. Good condition

Property from an European private collection 

Note: Cf. a similar but slightly larger vase (45.5cm high) dated to the Kangxi period, illustrated in Compendium of Collections in the Palace Museum: Ceramics 23 Shunzhi (1644-1661) and Kangxi (1662-1722) Period of the Qing Dynasty (II), Beijing, 2013, no.20, see also another similar vase from the E.T.Hall Collection, sold at Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 150; and another of related form sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 28 November 2012, lot 2296

NAGEL. "Asian Art". Sale 722, 06/06/2015