A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE ‘PHOENIX’ YEN YEN VASE
A CHINESE FAMILLE VERTE ‘PHOENIX’ YEN YEN VASE
Please note the dating should read 19th Century
Painted with two phoenix standing on green rocks beneath a wutong tree, flanked by large peony blooms and with four yellow and black magpies, two cranes, and a pair of mandarin ducks swimming in a lotus pond, the tall flaring neck decorated with a pheasant and a fifth magpie amidst blossoming peony and magnolia branches growing around rocks, with iron-red and green geometric bands to the rim, shoulder and foot, 45.5cm.
Provenance: Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum (1850-1916), and thence by descent through the family.
清康熙 五彩鳳求凰紋鳳尾尊
來源:霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥(1850-1916),之後由其後人繼承。