拍品專文
Compare with a related embellished gilt-bronze 'phoenix' vase from the Rothschild family, sold by Christie's Paris, 21 November 2008, lot 161. Another vase with two birds surrounding a hollow trunk from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, is illustrated in Philip Rawson and Laszlo Legaza, Tao, la Philosophie Chinoise de Temps et du Changement, Paris 1973, p.101, fig.17.