Description: An unusual famille verte yenyen vase ,KangXi period. The tall trumpet neck decorated in underglaze blue with two mythical creatures, their scales highlighted in gilding and standing on rockwork on an iron-red ground enlivened with tongues of flames, the baluster body with an allover pattern of iron-red breaking waves and with a band of green and yellow enameled trellis pattern interrupted by four iron-red flowerheads below the rim--20?in. (51.5cm.) high. PROVENANCE: Christie's sale 8066 (new york,) 1 December 1994 , Fine Chinese ceramics and works of art, lot 399.