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Notable for its bold and brilliantly enameled design of phoenix flying among peonies, ewers of this form are rare and no other
closely related example appears to have been published. Compare a ewer of related form, but decorated with Buddhist lions, and
with a tall cover, from the T.B. Kitson Collection, included in the exhibition Chinese Cloisonné. The Pierre Uldry Collection, Asia
Society Galleries, New York, 1989, cat. no. 98, and sold twice in our London rooms, 21st February 1961, lot 272, and 11th July 1972,
lot 27; another sold at Christie’s New York, 1st December 1983, lot 773; and a third with lotus scrolls included in the exhibition
Chinese Cloisonné, op. cit., cat. no. 99. See also a ewer of ovoid form decorated with makara dragons above waves, and with the
spout and handle simulating bamboo, from the collection of David David-Weill, in the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, included in
the exhibition Cloisonné: Chinese Enamels from the Yuan, Ming, and Qing Dynasties, Bard Graduate Center, New York, 2011, cat. no.
36; and another but with a geometric handle, from the T.B. Kitson Collection, sold in our London rooms, 30th May 1961, lot 408.

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