Lot 456. A very rare Impérial wucai double-gourd wall vase, China, underglaze blue Wanli mark and period. Estimate 120000/150000 €. Lot sold 220.000 €. © 2015 Nagel Auctions

the upper bulb painted with a pair of phoenix in flight amongst stylised cloud scrolls beneath a stiff leaf border, the lower section separated with bands of stylised ruyi heads and lingzhi scrolls with a pair of opposing phoenix amongst flowers, foliage and rockwork, all on a spreading foot decorated with a further lingzhi scroll border, pierced apperture for hanging, marked in underglaze blue in a reserve above the hanging apperture. H. 34,5 cm  - Few small glaze frits, very minor wear, good condition

Notes: A very similar vase was sold at Sotheby's London, 12.7.2006, Lot 68

- Cf. Regina Krahl, `The T.T.Tsui Collection of Chinese Ceramics', Orientations , December 1989, p.41, fig. 19. - The Tsui Museum of Art , Hong Kong, 1991, pl. 90

- A similar wucai wall vase, in the Tianjin City Art Museum, is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji, vol. 13, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 110; another in the Baur collection is published in John Ayers, The Baur Collection, vol. 2, Geneva, 1969, pl. A201; and a third example, in the Dresden Porzellansammlung, is included in E. Zimmerman, Chinesisches Porzellan, Leipzig, 1923, pl. 66.

See also a closely related vase sols at Sotheby's Hong Kong 10.4.2006, lot 1781; and another from the Mr. and Mrs. Otto Doering collection was sold at Christie's New York, 9th November 1978, lot 130 - Few small glaze frits, very minor wear, good condition

Nagel. "Asian Art", 07/12/2015