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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN COLLECTION
A LARGE ROSE-VERTE PHOENIX-TAIL VASE
LATE KANGXI-EARLY YONGZHENG PERIOD
Details
A LARGE ROSE-VERTE PHOENIX-TAIL VASE
LATE KANGXI-EARLY YONGZHENG PERIOD
The vase is brightly enameled with the immortal Liu Hai holding a wine gourd, the three-legged toad of wealth beside him and an attendant bringing him a vessel filled with cash, the reverse with bats flying among pine and sacred fungus, and the neck with a scholar seated in front of a scroll.
17½ in. (44.4 cm.) high
LATE KANGXI-EARLY YONGZHENG PERIOD
The vase is brightly enameled with the immortal Liu Hai holding a wine gourd, the three-legged toad of wealth beside him and an attendant bringing him a vessel filled with cash, the reverse with bats flying among pine and sacred fungus, and the neck with a scholar seated in front of a scroll.
17½ in. (44.4 cm.) high
Provenance
Chait Galleries, New York, 23 October 2005.
Christie's New York, 27 January 2014, lot 416.
Christie's New York, 27 January 2014, lot 416.