Lot 1372. A massive blue and white baluster vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 30¾ in. (78.1 cm.) high. Estimate 25,000 - USD 35,000. Price realised 60,000 USD. © Christie's Image Ltd 2010

The body well painted with phoenixes, cranes, and a peacock in a lush setting of peonies and trees, with numerous small birds nestled amidst their branches and in flight beneath a band of scrolling clouds and borders of bamboo and crosshatch designs at the base of the tapered neck, which is painted in similar fashion, the base with apocryphal six-character Jiajing mark within a double circle.

Provenance: William Rhinelander Stewart, New York.
Princess Miguel de Braganca, New York.
The late Bertram S. Boggis Collection; Parke-Bernet Galleries, Inc., New York, 16-17 October 1958, lot 385

Exhibited: Brooklyn Museum, prior to 1958.
Selections from the William and Winifred Corbin Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Portland Art Museum, 1 - 29 March 1964, no. 53.

Christie's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, New York, 16 - 17 September 2010