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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¡ in. (72 cm.) high
HK$500,000-800,000 US$65,000-100,000
PROVENANCE
Sold at Bonhams London, 11 November 2002, lot 152
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.

清康熙 黑地五彩花鳥紋鳳尾尊
來源
倫敦邦瀚斯，2002 年 11 月 11 日，拍品 152 號

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