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A COPPER-RED GLAZED GARLIC-MOUTH VASE QING DYNASTY, 18TH / 19TH CENTURY |
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Height 8 in., 20.3 cm
the compressed globular body resting on a short tapered foot, rising to a slender neck encircled by a raised filet and swelling to a wide garlic-head mouth, the exterior covered with a rich copper-red glaze suffused with fine crackles, draining to pale tones at the shoulder and mouth, stopping just above the unglazed foot ring, the interior and recessed base with a crackled white glaze with a slightly blue tinge
Provenance
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, September 2003.
Literature
Karen Thomson, ed., The Blema and H. Arnold Steinberg Collection, Montreal, 2015, pl. 159.