A LARGE AND SUPERB BLUE AND WHITE 'PHOENIX AND PEONY' VASE, TIANQIUPING QING DYNASTY, JIAQING - DAOGUANG PERIOD | 清嘉慶至道光 青花鳳穿牡丹天球瓶

See a Daoguang mark-and-period covered jar in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, similarly decorated with a pair of phoenix amongst a peony scroll, included in Guanyang yuci. Gugong bowuyuan cang Qingdai zhi ci guanyang yu yuyao ciqi [Official designs for imperial porcelains: Qing dynasty official ceramic designs and imperial porcelain in the Palace Museum], Beijing, 2007, no. 81, together with a closely related drawing of the design.

此天球瓶敦樸碩大，雅繪雙鳯穿花，牡丹盛綻，尤為高貴。有清一朝，御窰有依樣燒造相類圖案之瓷器，《官樣御瓷：故宮博物院藏清代製瓷官樣與御窰瓷器》中便收錄了一件道光署款青花鳯穿牡丹蓋罐，以及其設色紙本圖樣（北京，2007年，編號81）。