康熙青花山水人物纹花觚：珍品 A beautiful and very rare KangXi period B/W glaze HUA-GU vase. This vase has a very elegant, graceful, and flowing contour. It has an elongate body, especially the upper section, and with a proportionally large mouth than such vases made thereafter. This shape is typical for Kangxi HUA-GU vases. The clay that forms the body is white and very fine, typical of Kangxi porcelain clays. The transparent glaze on the inner wall and the outer base is white, jewelry blue glaze is exceedingly beautiful and very rare. In Chinese porcelain history, this color exists primarily among a very small number of porcelains. A double circles mark in underglaze blue is written at center of the outer base. The underglaze cobalt pigment is subdued and appears to adhere to the bottom of the glaze. These are important characteristics of early Kangxi underglaze, and differentiate Kangxi from later imitations. On the 16th year of Kangxi reign, the head Fo Liang county, where the imperial porcelain factory resided, prohibited the writing of reign mark on porcelains, in order to prevent that the sacred reign mark might be trashed when porcelain is broken. Perhaps this is the reason that Kangxi mark was not written on this magnificent vase. Size: H:41.3cm Dimensions: Size: H:41.3cm