Lot 314, A large famille-verte 'phoenix-tail' vase, Qing dynasty, 18th-19th century. Estimate 30,000 — 50,000 USD. Photo Sotheby's

the baluster-form body rising to a wide trumpet-form mouth with everted rim, painted with a continuous scene depicting the immortal Xiwangmu, with female attendants, one bearing a large peach and King Mu of the Zhou standing by a garden wall, serenaded by female musicians as handmaidens approach bearing gifts, the King gazing towards the goddess hoping to receive the peach of immortality but destined to return to the mortal realm, all set within the lush and luxurious paradisiacal home of the deity, Mount Kunlun, the base with a Chenghua cyclical date within a double circle. Height 30 3/4  in., 78 cm

Property from the collection of Arthur and Eileen Newman

Provenance: Christie's London, 23rd April 1990, lot 228.
Collection of David A. Berg, New York.
Christie's New York, 23rd January 2001, lot 28.
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, Inc., New York, 29th October 2005

Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 16 mars 2016, 10:00 AM