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A MONUMENTAL AND RARE ROSE-VERTE 清康熙 五彩加粉彩五倫圖棒槌瓶
‘BIRDS’ ROULEAU VASE
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD 來源：
聖塔巴巴拉藝術博物館，加州聖塔巴巴拉
with a cylindrical body surmounted by a constricted neck
and galleried rim, the body finely enamelled in the rose-verte
palette with a lavish and vibrant continuous scene depicting
a pair of phoenix perched on green jagged rocks, each of the
mythical birds rendered with its stylised ruyi-crested head
turned over its back to face the other, the verdant setting
populated with several pairs of birds, including a pair of
magpies in the branches of a magnolia tree, above a pair of
mandarin ducks swimming in a pond accentuated with pink
and blue lotus blooms and green lily pads, the reverse of the
vibrant design with a pair of cranes perched on a gnarled tree
trunk emerging from dense clusters of multi-coloured floral
blooms picked out in yellow, pink, red and blue, including
mallow, iris and large peony blooms, further decorated with a
pair of sparrows portrayed in flight near a butterfly, all below a
frieze encircling the neck with cartouches of crabs and shrimp,
separated by yellow chrysanthemum blooms borne on stylised
and floral scrolls on a stippled green ground, the cylindrical
neck with a pair of kingfishers amidst bright pink lotus and
large green lily leaves, all below a key-fret band encircling the
rim, the base with an underglaze-blue double circle
74.7 cm, 29⅜ in.

PROVENANCE
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California.

HK$ 4,000,000-6,000,000
US$ 520,000-775,000

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