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A large Chinese famille verte figure, 19th century, of a peacock standing with its claws on lingzhi issuing from a tall rockwork base entwined with leaves, its feathers fanned out falling to the ground, all picked out in iron red, blue, green, yellow, aubergine and gilt, 66cm high For a similar lot, but as a pair of phoenix figures, see Sotheby's, New York, 20 October 2018, lot 1057 and Sotheby's, New York, 1 November 1986, lot 3, which were recorded and dated as Kangxi period in Edgar Gorer and J F Blacker, 'Chinese Porcelain and Hardstone', Vol. I, London, 1911, pl. 97. A similarly modelled pair of peacocks of large size is illustrated in Michael Cohen and William Motley, 'Mandarin and Menagerie: Chinese and Japanese Export Ceramic Figures'. Volume I: The James E Sowell Collection, Surrey, 2008, pp. 232-233, cat. no. 16.8, where the authors date the pair as circa 1820. 清十九世纪 五彩孔雀摆件