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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION, 清順治 / 康熙初 青花五彩錦堂富貴圖花觚
SOUTH CAROLINA
A WUCAI ‘PHOENIX’ GU-FORM VASE, QING 來源：
DYNASTY, SHUNZHI / EARLY KANGXI PERIOD
Bertrand de Lavergne，巴黎
Height 19⅛ in., 48.5 cm
PROVENANCE
Bertrand de Lavergne, Paris.
The decorative pattern on the current vase, featuring three
distinct bands adorned with phoenix, flowers, rocks, and
pomegranates, represents a continuation of the earlier
renditions of this form embellished in the wucai palette.
Compare a Shunzhi period vase, the middle band decorated
with pomegranates and a lower band of crabapple blooms,
in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, included in Seventeenth
Century Jingdezhen Porcelain: From the Shanghai Museum
and the Butler Family Collections, London, 2006, pp 168-169,
cat. no. 50; another Shunzhi period vase in a slightly smaller
size, decorated with only flowers and pomegranates, is in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, published on their website
(accession no. 新00128111).
For further auction examples, compare a slightly larger pair
of wucai gu-form vases with similar ‘phoenix’ decorations
from the Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, first sold
in our London rooms, 14th November 1978, lot 124, then at
Christie’s New York, 25th September 2020, lot 1579; see
another vase slightly smaller in size, formerly in the Ernest
Raphael Collection, sold in our London rooms, 23rd July
1968, lot 78.
$ 40,000-60,000

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