A COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'MALLET'-SHAPED VASE

KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED 'MALLET'-SHAPED VASE
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The domed body and tall neck are decorated with two stylized phoenixes grasping a ring in their beaks, in tones of greyish-rose, olive-green and pink, their eyes in underglaze blue.
7 1/8 in. (18 cm.) high

Provenance

Dr. Peter M. Greiner (1940-2013) Collection.

Literature

Dr. Peter M. Greiner, A Walk into China's Past,Michigan, 1980, pl. 18, no. 71.

Exhibited

Battle Creek, Michigan, A Walk into China's Past, 1980-1981, no. 71.

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Lot Essay

Vases of this mallet or 'horse hoof' shape with similar decoration in copper red only are in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng (ed.) in Kangxi Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p. 108, no. 71, and in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Sekai Toji Zenshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 141.

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