A LARGE MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED AND GILT-DECORATED YEN YEN VASEKangxi
Very brightly gilt all around the lower baluster section with roundels and leaf-shaped panels of prunus blossom branches, bamboo, and other elaborate foliage, the design repeated on the tall trumpet neck, a band of lappets rising from the spreading foot, much of the gilding in unusually good original condition except around the foot. 43.5cm (17 1/4in) high.Footnotes清康熙 烏金釉描金開光花卉紋鳳尾尊
Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 28 February 2019
A European private collection
來源：Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2019年2月28日
歐洲私人收藏
Distinguished from ordinary black glazes coloured with iron, the Kangxi period mirror-black glaze also includes manganese and cobalt as colourants; see P.Y.K.Lam, Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Hong Kong, 2005, p233. See a related mirror-black glazed vase but without gilt, illustrated in Ibid., p.234, pl.156.
Compare also with a similar mirror black-glazed and gilt vase, Kangxi period, which was sold at Christie's London, on 14 May 2014, lot 612. See also two mirror black and gilt-decorated yen yen vases, Kangxi, which were sold at Bonhams Knightsbridge, 5 November 2018, lot 129.
A LARGE MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED AND GILT-DECORATED YEN YEN VASEKangxi
Very brightly gilt all around the lower baluster section with roundels and leaf-shaped panels of prunus blossom branches, bamboo, and other elaborate foliage, the design repeated on the tall trumpet neck, a band of lappets rising from the spreading foot, much of the gilding in unusually good original condition except around the foot. 43.5cm (17 1/4in) high.Footnotes清康熙 烏金釉描金開光花卉紋鳳尾尊
Provenance: Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 28 February 2019
A European private collection
來源：Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2019年2月28日
歐洲私人收藏
Distinguished from ordinary black glazes coloured with iron, the Kangxi period mirror-black glaze also includes manganese and cobalt as colourants; see P.Y.K.Lam, Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Hong Kong, 2005, p233. See a related mirror-black glazed vase but without gilt, illustrated in Ibid., p.234, pl.156.
Compare also with a similar mirror black-glazed and gilt vase, Kangxi period, which was sold at Christie's London, on 14 May 2014, lot 612. See also two mirror black and gilt-decorated yen yen vases, Kangxi, which were sold at Bonhams Knightsbridge, 5 November 2018, lot 129.
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