Description: Porcelain with white glaze and underglaze blue painting
China, Kangxi period (1662-1722)
The globular body is petal-molded at the belly with overlapping panels enclosing boughs of flowering plants below jardinières of leafy flowering plants divided by molded petal-edged circular floral medallions. This part is surmounted by a smaller bulbous section with further molded upright petals reserving flowers, the waisted tall neck flaring to a lipped rim similarly decorated, all raised on a splayed base with rounded foot encircled with a floral, a geometrical and a cloud-band border. The underside bears a lingzhi spray inside a double-circle.
Shape: Yen Yen (phoenix tail) shape
Dimensions: Height 42,2 cm
Condition: One tiny chip with emerging short hairline to neck, otherwise very good condition
Provenance: Old Austrian Private collection, assembled in the 1930s to early 1950s
Literature comparison: see Sotheby’s, FINE CHINESE CERAMICS & WORKS OF ART, 07 NOVEMBER 2012, LONDON, lot 349 (for a pair of moulded Yen Yen vases, slightly larger) or Sotheby’s, IMPORTANT CHINESE ART, 13 SEPTEMBER 2017, NEW YORK, lot 189 (for a near identical pair of vases).
康熙年間青花富貴花卉鳳尾尊
陶瓷青花釉下彩
中國,康熙年間 (1662-1722)
鳳尾尊器身鼓腹,開光繁花紋、如意紋。頸部扇形開光蓮花紋,唇沿斜綫紋。圈足上幾何及如意雲帶環繞,整體雍容華貴,嬌艷富麗。雍容华贵,娇艳富丽。
形狀:鳳尾尊
尺寸:高 42,2 cm
頸部有極小髮絲裂縫,整體品相良好
奧地利私人老收藏,上世紀三十年代至五十年代間購入
文獻參考:蘇富比《中國陶瓷及工藝品》,2012年11月7日,倫敦,拍品349號(一對鳳尾尊,稍大)或者蘇富比《重要中國藝術》,2017年9月13日,紐約,189號拍品(一對幾乎一模一樣的瓶子)