Lot 3721. A rare blue and white 'Phoenix' basin, Mark and period of Kangxi. Estimate 480,000 — 550,000 HKD. Unsold. Photo courtesy Sotheby's

sturdily potted with steep rounded sides rising to a flat everted mouthrim, the interior vividly painted with a medallion enclosing a long-tailed phoenix soaring amidst dense cloud scrolls, surrounded by a frieze similarly decorated with phoenix and clouds around the well, the rim with a leafy lotus scroll within a brown-edged border, the exterior undecorated, the base with a six-character reign mark within a double-circle;39.3 cm., 15 1/2  in.

Provenance: Sotheby's London, 21st June 1977, lot 7.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 29th November 1978, lot 222.
Sotheby's Hong Kong, 18th May 1982, lot 251.
Christie's New York, 17th September 2008, lot 455.

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Works of Art, Hong Kong, 07 avr. 2015