'phoenix' bowl

Lot 318. An inscribed famille-verte brushpot, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period (1662-1722); h. 12.4 cm. Lot sold: 75,600 HKD (Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 HKD). © 2023 Sotheby's the inscribed poem may be translated as follows, Do you not realise the peaches of the Queen Mother of the West take a thousand years to ripen, For the time being let us amuse ourselves like Liu Lang.題詩： 未知王母千年熟 且共劉郎一咲同 Property from the Alleyne Collection. Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd, London, 1978. Lot... [Lire la suite]

Lot 327. A 'Jizhou' 'papercut' 'phoenix' bowl, Southern Song dynasty (1127-1279). Diameter 6⅜ in., 16.1 cm. Lot sold: 9,450 USD (Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 USD). © Sotheby's 2022 Provenance: Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). Christie's New York, 13th September 2018, lot 1153. Sotheby's. Important Chinese Art, New York, 21 september 2022

Lot 21. A very fine and rare pair of iron-red and gilt-decorated 'phoenix' bowls, Marks and period of Kangxi (1662-1722); 11.1 cm. Lot sold: 693,000 HKD (Estimate: 400,000 - 600,000). © Sotheby's 2021 each delicately potted with deep rounded sides rising from a straight foot to a gently everted rim, the exterior decorated in iron-red enamel and gilt with a male phoenix with its long tail stretched behind, in pursuit of a female phoenix with shorter ribboned tail, amidst stylised cloud scrolls,... [Lire la suite]

Lot 12. A pair of famille-rose 'phoenix' bowls, Late Qing-Republic period; Diameter 5⅜ in., 13.6 cm. Estimate: 4,000 - 6,000 USD. Lot sold: 5,292 USD. Courtesy Sotheby's. each base with an apocryphal six-character Guangxu mark in iron red. Sotheby's. The Hundred Antiques: Fine & Decorative Asian Art, New York, 11-22 June 2021

Lot 350. A moulded Qingbai 'phoenix' bowl, Song dynasty (960-1279); d. 28.7 cm, 11 1/4  in. Estimate 15,000 — 20,000 HKD. Lot sold 200,000 HKD (22,791 EUR). Courtesy Sotheby's. the interior decorated with a pair of phoenix, surrounded by floral scrolls and a key-fret band, applied overall with a transparent blue-tinged glaze suffused with crackles. Property from the Estate of Chao Sze Kwong George. Provenance: Collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), and thence by descent in... [Lire la suite]

Lot 5061. A large white-glazed anhua-decorated 'phoenix' bowl, Mark and period of Jiajing (1522-1566); 30 cm, 11 7/8  in. Estimate 200,000 — 300,000 HKD. Sold for 725,000 HKD (85,782 EUR). Courtesy Sotheby's. well potted, the rounded sides gently rising from a straight foot to a flaring rim, the interior centre incised with a pair of confronting phoenix, the exterior similarly decorated with two phoenix flying among scrolling clouds, above a ring of radiating lotus petal... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1820. A famille rose  'phoenix' bowl, Daoguang seal mark in underglaze blue and of the period (1821-1850); 8 3/8 in. (21.3 cm.) diam. Estimate USD 15,000 - USD 20,000. Price realised USD 18,750. © Christie's Images Ltd 2011.   The deep sides decorated with four phoenixes in blue, pink, yellow and green, in flight between four different flowers, all between gilt borders.  Provenance: Acquired in the 1980s. Note: A famille rose enameled... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1926. A pair of copper-red decorated 'phoenix' bowls, Qianlong six-character seal marks and of the period (1736-1795); 5 3/4 in. (14.5 cm.) diam. Estimate HKD 300,000 - HKD 500,000. Price Realized HKD 750,000. © Christie's Image Ltd 2013 Each bowl has deep rounded sides rising to an everted rim decorated on the exterior with five phoenix roundels executed in soft copper-red with speckles of apple green to the wings. The centre of the interior with a similar phoenix roundel. ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 1822. A fine blue and white 'phoenix' bowl, Kangxi six-character mark within double-circles and of the period (1622-1722); 6 in. (15.2 cm.) diam. Estimate: HKD 80,000 - HKD 120,000. Price realised HKD 211,500. © Christie's Image Ltd 2008. The rounded sides of slightly flaring form, delicately painted to the exterior in soft tones of cobalt-blue with two long-tailed phoenix in flight framed by ruyi-shaped clouds between double-line borders at the foot and rim, box.  ... [Lire la suite]

Lot 40.  A very rare blue and white 'phoenix' bowl, Wanli six-character mark and of the period (1573-1619); 21cm (8 1/4in) diam. Estimate HK$ 500,000 - 800,000 (€ 58,000 - 92,000). Courtesy Bonham's. The interior vividly painted with a circular panel enclosing two swooping phoenix in pursuit of each other amidst dense lotus scroll ground, the cavetto encircled by eight phoenix roundels below a border of lingzhi heads at the rim, the exterior with a wide frieze of two flying phoenix between a... [Lire la suite]