A wucai 'phoenix' gu-form vase, Qing dynasty, Shunzhi / early Kangxi period | 清順治 / 康熙初 青花五彩錦堂富貴圖花觚

Bertrand de Lavergne, Paris.

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Bertrand de Lavergne，巴黎

The decorative pattern on the current vase, featuring three distinct bands adorned with phoenix, flowers, rocks, and pomegranates, represents a continuation of the earlier renditions of this form embellished in the wucai palette. Compare a Shunzhi period vase, the middle band decorated with pomegranates and a lower band of crabapple bloom, in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, included in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain: From the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Family Collections, London, 2006, pp 168-169, cat. no. 50; another Shunzhi period vase in a slightly smaller size, decorated with only flowers and pomegranates, is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published on their website (accession no. 新00128111).

For further auction examples, compare a slightly larger pair of wucai gu-form vases with similar 'phoenix' decorations from the Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, first sold in our London rooms, 14th November 1978, lot 124, then at Christie's New York, 25th September 2020, lot 1579; see another vase slightly smaller in size, formerly in the Ernest Raphael Collection, sold in our London rooms, 23rd July 1968, lot 78.