A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE 'BIRDS AND FLOWERS' ROULEAU VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted with a pheasant standing on rockwork amidst peony, prunus and other blossoming flowers, with six smaller birds in flight and perched amidst the blooms, the cylindrical neck decorated with sprays of leafy branches, 48cm.

Cf. M A Pinto de Matos, Chinese Porcelain in the Calouste Gulbenkian Collection, pp.88-91, no.17 for a comparable vase; see also Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, pp.88-89, no.57 for a blue and white rouleau vase decorated with a similar scene.