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拍品專文
A very similar pair of vases is in the Long Gallery at Osterley House, and it is these vases which are most likely to be the ones mentioned by Sophie de la Roche in her diary during a visit to Osterley in 1786, 'There are tremendous Japanese vases in there also, large enough to conceal Carl' (her younger brother). See Anthony du Boulay, The Porcelain at Osterley, Apollo, April 1995, p.19.
Famille rose vases of this size and painted with phoenix amongst rockwork and flowers can, in the main, be divided into two distinctive groups: those, as in the present lot, with a narrow iron-red band around the shoulder and iron-red whorls around the foot; and those without the iron-red band with the elaborate neck design extending over the shoulder. Pairs of vases of the former group, very similar to the present lot, have been sold in these Rooms on several occasions: on 6 June 1957, lot 21 (from the collection of Lt. Col. A. Heywood-Lonsdale, M.C.); on 28 July 1975, lot 182 (from the collection of Edmund de Rothschild, T.D.); on 10 and 11 June 1974, lot 286 and again on 27 June 1977, lot 85; and on 6 April, 1998, lot 161.
Famille rose vases of this size and painted with phoenix amongst rockwork and flowers can, in the main, be divided into two distinctive groups: those, as in the present lot, with a narrow iron-red band around the shoulder and iron-red whorls around the foot; and those without the iron-red band with the elaborate neck design extending over the shoulder. Pairs of vases of the former group, very similar to the present lot, have been sold in these Rooms on several occasions: on 6 June 1957, lot 21 (from the collection of Lt. Col. A. Heywood-Lonsdale, M.C.); on 28 July 1975, lot 182 (from the collection of Edmund de Rothschild, T.D.); on 10 and 11 June 1974, lot 286 and again on 27 June 1977, lot 85; and on 6 April, 1998, lot 161.