A 'CLAIR-DE-LUNE' GLAZED VASE, JUN MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI

the finely potted globular body tapering elegantly to a slender cylindrical neck, all resting on a short, slightly splayed foot, covered overall in a rich, glossy, soft pale-blue glaze thinning at the everted rim and pooling around the foot, the base glazed white and inscribed with the six-character mark in underglaze-blue

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York.
The Collection of David Berg, New York.
Christie's New York, 21st September 2000, lot 373.

Apart from a 3 cm hairline extending vertically from the rim, the overall condition is quite good. There are a couple minute potting flaws around the base near the foot beneath the glaze. The colour is very even throughout and is slightly 5b% paler in actuality than in the catalogue illustration.
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A similar vase in the Baur Collection is illustrated in John Ayers, Chinese Ceramics in the Baur Collection, Geneva, 1999, pl.177.  See another in the Palace Museum, Beijing, but more globular in form and with a shorter neck, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Monochrome Porcelain, Hong Kong, 1999, cat.no.88.