A PEACHBLOOM-GLAZED PORCELAIN VASE, China, Qing dynasty (1644-1911)

h cm 12,5

With a flat foot, globular body, and long tubular neck terminating in a slightly flared rim, it is entirely covered with a crushed-strawberry glaze suffused with minute darker and lighter speckles, thinner at the rim; the center of the base bears the six-character underglaze blue mark of the Kangxi Emperor.