Beschreibung:

TWO MIRROR-BLACK-GLAZED LONG-NECKED BOTTLE VASESKangxi
One vase with a pear-shaped profile rising from a slightly splayed foot to an elongated neck, finely coated in a brilliant shiny rich dark glaze, the interior plain, 22cm (8 3/4in) high; the second vase with a globular body below the long neck, with traces of floral gilt decoration, 25cm (9 1/2in) high. (2).Footnotes清康熙 烏金釉長頸瓶 一組兩件
Provenance: an American private collection (the pear-shaped vase)
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, on 10 May 2016 (the pear-shaped vase)
Professor Edward Thomas Hall (1924-2001) (label) (the globular shape vase)
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, on 18 November 2005 (the globular shape vase)
A European private collection
來源：美國私人收藏（梨型身瓶）
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2016年5月10日（梨型身瓶）
Edward Thomas Hall 教授（1924-2001)（標籤）(球型身瓶)
Ralph M. Chait Galleries，紐約，2005年11月18日(球型身瓶)
歐洲私人收藏
Compare the pear-shaped vase with a similar mirror-black-glazed vase, illustrated by P.Y.K.Lam, Shimmering Colours: Monochromes of the Yuan to Qing Periods, Hong Kong, 2005, p.235, pl.157. See also a related mirror-black-glazed vase, Kangxi, which was sold at Bonhams London, 16 May 2019, lot 28.
Compare the globular vase with a related black-glazed vase, Kangxi, in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.14.40.23). A similar black-glazed vase in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Sekai tōji zenshū (Ceramic Art of the World), Vol.15, Tokyo, 1983, p.194, pl.251. Another similar black-glazed vase Kangxi, in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco is illustrated by H.Li, Chinese Ceramics: The New Standard Guide, London, 1996, p.282, no.553.
See also a similar mirror-black-glazed vase, Kangxi, which was sold at Christie's London, 7 June 2004, lot 195.