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A COPPER-RED-DECORATED ‘PHOENIX’ MALLET-SHAPED Vases of this mallet or ‘horse hoof’ shape with similar decoration in copper
VASE red are in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated by Wang Qingzheng (ed.) in
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF Kangxi Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998,
THE PERIOD (1662-1722) p. 108, no. 71; in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Sekai
toji zehshu, vol. 15, Tokyo, 1983, pl. 141; and in the Palace Museum, Beijing,
The vase is decorated in underglaze copper-red with two highly stylized
illustrated in Gu taoci ziliao xuancui, vol. II, Beijing 2005, no. 28, See, also, the
phoenixes, each grasping a ring in its beak and each with a tiny spot of
example sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 October 2013, lot 3116 and another
underglaze blue to defne the eye. The rim has a metal mount.
sold at Christie’s New York, 18 September 2014, lot 795.
5æ in. (14.7 cm.) high 清康熙 釉裡紅鳳鳥紋雙陸尊 三行六字楷書款
$8,000-12,000
PROVENANCE
Bluett & Sons, London.
Bonham’s London, 5 November 2007, lot 254.
The Studio of the Clear Garden.
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