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A LARGE AND FINELY PAINTED FAMILLE VERTE
‘PHOENIX TAIL’ VASE
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
The body is decorated with a scene of an oficial and his consort, surrounded
by courtiers, enjoying entertainment from two performers and a band of
musicians, while two other oficials sit outside on horseback shielded by
parasols held aloft by attendants. The neck is enameled with a scene of
another oficial with attendants reprimanding a young woman kneeling beside
a spilled cup and chopsticks while another woman stands eavesdropping from
behind a partition.
30º in. (76.8 cm.) high
$40,000-60,000
PROVENANCE
The Cleveland Museum of Art; Christie’s New York,
21 September 2000, lot 314.
Christie’s New York, 20 September 2005, lot 317.
清康熙 五彩人物故事圖大鳳尾尊
(detail of reverse)
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