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Kangxi
The box of square form with straight sides rising from four bracket feet, finely enamelled around the exterior with phoenixes of elaborate plumage amidst ruyi clouds, the flat cover similarly decorated and surmounted by a straight finial, the interior divided into two compartments. 9cm (3 1/2in) square. (2).
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Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價
清康熙 素三彩鳳紋蓋盒
Provenance:
A & J Speelman Oriental Art, London
Acquired from the above on 22 May 2015
來源:
倫敦古董商A & J Speelman Oriental Art
從上處獲得于2015年5月22日
The phoenix ( 鳳凰) is one of the most auspicious creatures in Chinese art, traditionally associated with virtue, prosperity, and the advent of a peaceful and well-governed age. As the mythical counterpart to the dragon, it also symbolises the Empress and, when depicted together with the dragon, represents marital harmony and the union of and .
See a similar famille verte biscuit box and cover, Kangxi, decorated with sea horses, illustrated by R.L.Hobson, , London, 1931, pl.LIV, no.260.