清康熙 五彩描金「錦上添花」圖鳳尾瓶

the rounded baluster body surmounted by a tall cylindrical neck and a wide flared rim, brightly enamelled in shades of green, blue, yellow, iron-red, aubergine with black and gold details, depicting a pair of ribbon-tailed birds perched on craggy rocks among luscious peonies on one side and two songbirds on a gnarled branch of camellia tree on the other, the shoulder picked out with a band of iron-red key-fret suspending green ruyi, below a border of green lattices interspersed with florets, the neck similarly decorated with two songbirds perched on rocks among large chrysanthemum, asters, clump of iris and red wisterias, below a blue double line at the rim further repeated around the shoulder and the foot, the white glazed base centred with a double ring in underglaze blue

倫敦蘇富比1994年12月6日，編號199
香港佳士得1996年11月3日，編號780

The vase is in overall very good condition with only expected light scratches in areas on the lower register, and a faint star-shaped crackle in the glaze on the base that is not in the body.
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此品繪飾生動細緻，盡顯花開錦繡段，比翼伴花叢之景致。翎毛花卉，筆觸酣暢，配以藍、綠及墨彩，並敷耀目礬紅，色彩鮮麗，再施描金，足見氣派不凡，匠心精細。瓶身雀鳥，有影皆雙，可喻比翼齊飛，或以賀結縭之喜。

類同作例，見一相近飾紋之花鳥瓶，器形、大小略同，現藏美國維珍尼亞州諾福克 Chrysler 博物館，曾售於紐約佳士得1985年6月6日，編號406。另有一荷花圖瓶，載於《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器圖錄》，香港，1989年，頁53，圖版36。有一例曾錄於中野徹，《中国の文様》，東京，1985年，圖版142。還有一例瓶，見售於倫敦蘇富比1983年6月28日，編號81。有一飾有近以花鳥之花觚，藏於紐約大都會藝術博物館，並曾錄於 Suzanne G. Valenstein，《A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics》，紐約，1989年，彩圖406。

類同翎毛花卉飾紋，亦見於青花鳳尾瓶，有一作例現藏北京故宮博物院，錄於《清順治康熙朝青花瓷》，北京，2005年，圖版305。還有一例屬上海博物館藏，載於《康熙瓷》，香港，1998年，圖版68-1。