Lot 241. A 'Langyao' red-glazed vase, Guanyinzun, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 40.4cm (15 7/8in) high. Estimate £8,000 - 12,000. Sold for £ 16,250 (€ 18,608) inc. premium. © Bonhams 2001-2018

Elegantly potted with rounded shoulders rising from an elongated tapering base and spreading foot to a short cylindrical neck and slightly flared mouth, covered with a lustrous crackle-suffused red glaze thinning at the neck to a cream tone, the recessed base and interior both applied with a translucent pale blue glaze. 

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 4 October 2016, lot 165.

Note: A similar guanyinzun, Kangxi, is illustrated in the Catalogue of a Special Exhibition of Ch'ing Dynasty Monochrome Porcelains in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1981, pl.1; another guanyinzun vase, Kangxi is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, pl.15.

Compare with a similar red-glazed 'Langyao' vase, Kangxi, which was sold at Christie's, London, 7 June 2004, lot 150.