A BLUE AND WHITE PHOENIX EWER AND COVER

KANGXI PERIOD

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A BLUE AND WHITE PHOENIX EWER AND COVER
KANGXI PERIOD
Of quatrefoil bottle form, decorated in shades of inky blue with panels of birds and insects among flowering prunus, peony and chrysanthemum, the spout formed as the head of an open-mouthed phoenix, the domed, notched cover with flower finial
10 in. (25.4 cm.) high (2)

Provenance

with Marchant & Son, London

Lot Essay

For a pair of ewers of the same form with famille verte decoration, see anon. sale, Sotheby's, London, 14 November 2000, lot 347. Also compare J.A. Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1997, p. 162, fig. 177.

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