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PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN GENTLEMAN
A LARGE MOULDED AND CARVED CELADON 'PHOENIX TAIL' VASE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
Details
A LARGE MOULDED AND CARVED CELADON 'PHOENIX TAIL' VASE
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The heavily potted vase is moulded with peony-scrolls above a band of carved overlapping lotus petals. The trumpet-form neck is applied with further peony sprays beneath horizontal ribbed bands on the underside of the flaring mouth rim. The body is covered overall with a crackled glaze of sea-green tone with the exception of the unglazed foot rim.
19 ¼ in. (48.9 cm.) high
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The heavily potted vase is moulded with peony-scrolls above a band of carved overlapping lotus petals. The trumpet-form neck is applied with further peony sprays beneath horizontal ribbed bands on the underside of the flaring mouth rim. The body is covered overall with a crackled glaze of sea-green tone with the exception of the unglazed foot rim.
19 ¼ in. (48.9 cm.) high
Provenance
Acquired by the vendor's father in the early 1930's, and then by descent within the family.
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Samantha Yuen