R1010
£38,000
Description
Chinese porcelain celadon-ground large rouleau vase, with high shoulder, galleried rim and single ribbed neck, carved and applied with Shoulao and two attendants, one holding a basket while looking back, the other with scrolls tided in a bundle, all in a continuous landscape scene with two cranes, one in flight and one perched on an elaborate pine tree heightened in white slip and underglaze copper red deer, all beneath the full white slip decorated moon, on a rich and even celadon ground, the base with two underglaze blue rings.
Kangxi, 1662-1722
18 inches, 45.7cm height
Condition
Overall in excellent condition, without any chips, cracks and restoration, minor fritting on the underside of rim, two bubble bursts on the body, with natural wear and minute firing imperfections consistent with age and manufacture.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From an important French private collection.
- A phoenix-tail vase of similar subject matter and type was included by Marchant in their exhibition of Kangxi Underglaze Blue and Copper-Red, 2016, no. 31, pp. 96-7; another celadon-ground phoenix-tail vase in a similar decorated technique with magpies and prunus branches is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng, Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, no. 62, pp. 94-5.
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