Description A large and impressive famille-rose 'dragon and phoenix' vase Qing dynasty, 19th Century
the tall ovoid body boldly painted in brightly coloured enamels with a pair of dragons pursuing a flaming pearl on one side, and a pair of phoenix in flight on the other, all among branches of full-bloomed peonies, above a band of lappets and a floral scroll around the base, the shoulders with ribbed lug handles picked out in yellow, pink and turquoise set on a turquoise ground of shaped bird and flower vignettes, the yellow-ground cylindrical neck reserved with?pairs of ribboned emblems below the broad everted?mouth encircled with a green
wan diaper border
86cm high
清 (十九世紀)大型粉彩花瓶 飾有龍與鳳凰
CONDITION
some slight surface wear and to gilt rim, generally good condition