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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION

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A BLUE AND WHITE ‘PHOENIX TAIL’ VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

清康熙 青花山水人物圖鳳尾瓶

The baluster body and tall trumpet-shaped neck
are decorated in inky blue tones with fshermen in
continuous riverside landscape scenes. The foot
is painted with a classical scroll above a band of
cloud scrolls.

18 in. (45.6 cm.) high

£15,000-25,000 $23,000-38,000
€21,000-34,000

PROVENANCE:

The Victor Sullivan collection (d. 1976)
Woolley and Wallis, Salisbury, 15 June 2005.
Property from a private English collection.

來源: Victor Sullivan (1976年卒)舊
藏；於2005年6月15日購自英國
Woolley and Wallis

Victor Sullivan (d. 1976) was a businessman who
formed his collection after being introduced to
leading London Chinese dealers through his
friend, the academic Herbert Cescinsky (b. 1875).

A blue and white vase of almost identical size
and ‘phoenix tail’ form but with bird and fower
decoration is in the collection of the Shanghai
Museum, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares
from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong
Kong, 1998, pp. 104-105, no. 68.

Compare the current vase to another of the same
form, painted with similar scenes of scholars
within a mountainous landscape, which sold at
Christie’s New York, 19 & 20 September 2013,
lot 1322.

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