Chinese Sang de Boeuf Porcelain Vase as Table Lamp. Drilled with cord at bottom. Filled-in top of wide mouth, which is a contrasting black color with gold-toned lines around it. 

Condition: Lights up. Several chips to glazing and an apology in the shade. 

Size: 7 x 20 1/2 in. 

Sang de boeuf glaze, or sang-de-boeuf, is a deep red color of ceramic glaze, first appearing in Chinese porcelain at the start of the 18th Century. The name is French, meaning “ox blood,” and the glaze and the color sang de boeuf are also known as ox-blood or oxblood in English. Sang de boeuf was one of a number of new “flambé” glazes marked by “unpredictable but highly decorative and varying effects” developed in the Jingdezhen porcelain kilns during the reign of the Kangxi Emperor (1662-1722). As with most Chinese red glazes, the main coloring agent is copper oxide, fired in a reducing atmosphere (without oxygen) and finished in an oxidizing atmosphere. From the late 19th Century onwards, after lengthy experimentation, many Western potters produced versions of the Chinese glaze, which is still considered very technically difficult to achieve and control. The most common Chinese name for the glaze is lángyáohóng (“Lang kiln red”).

Lights up. Several chips to glazing and an apology in the shade. 

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