A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'PHEASANTS' BALUSTER VASE AND COVER

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted with a pair of pheasants perching on rockwork as blossoming peony, magnolia and hydrangea grow around them, the cover similarly decorated with floral sprays and with a continuous scrolling band to the underside, the cover with paper labels for Dickinson and Richard Pirie T Copeland, no.51, 43.5cm. (2)

Provenance: from the collection of Gresham Copeland (d.1960s), a former partner of the Copeland manufactory, and thence by descent.

Cf. Bonhams, The Contents of Trelissick House including The Copeland China Collection, 23rd-24th July 2013, lot 52 for the pair to this vase; see also J P Stamen & C Volk, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-Era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, pp.168-169, no.66 for a rouleau vase with similar decoration.