A LARGE FAMILLE NOIRE ‘PHOENIX-TAIL’ VASE

KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Details

A LARGE FAMILLE NOIRE ‘PHOENIX-TAIL’ VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The body of the vase is finely decorated with polychrome enamels depicting birds on blossoming leafy branches. The neck is similarly decorated with further peony, chrysanthemum, aster and mallow blooms.
28 3⁄8 in. (72 cm.) high

Provenance

Sold at Bonhams London, 11 November 2002, lot 152

Conditions of sale

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Lot Essay

The present vase can be compared to a very similarly decorated ‘phoenix-tail’ vase from the Kangxi period of almost the same size in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, bequest of John D. Rockefeller Jr, 1960, accession number 61.200.9.

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