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Lot Essay
A related Kangxi-period mallet-form blue and white vase in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi, vol. I, part II, Beijing 2005, pp. 102-3, no. 40. See, also, the similar vase, but incorporating copper-red in the phoenix decoration and bearing a yu (jade) mark on the base, from the Gordon Collection, sold at Christie’s New York, 24 March 2011, lot 1150.