A Chinese Porcelain Peach Bloom Amphora Small Vase

Likely Kangxi period (1662–1722), porcelain with peach bloom glaze that varies from pale pink to a deeper rose color over the body with scattered spots of grayish green, high foot with deeply recessed base with a six character Kangxi mark, written in two vertical rows in underglaze blue, held by a carved wood raised base.




HOA 6 3/4 in., 2 7/8 in. diameter

Collection of Mr. John Sylvester, Jr.

From the collection of consignor's grandparents, Admiral Harry Erwin Yarnell (1875-1959), Commander of the U.S. Asiatic Naval Fleet in the 1930s, and by descent.

Small crack to joint of one leg to stand; rim has been ground down.