Lot 44. A blue and white 'phoenix-tail' vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722); 44cm (17 1/3in) high (2). Sold for £10,000 (€12,690). © Bonhams 2001-2016.

Finely painted around the body with a continuous scene of scholars and fishermen amidst a mountainous river landscape with pavilions and birds in flight, the flaring neck with an similar scene, the rim and foot with cloud scroll border, wood stand. 

Provenance: an English private collection, assembled in Hong Kong from 1967-1989, and thence by descent

Exhibited, Published and Illustrated: The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, Hong Kong, February 1975, no.100

Bonhams. AUCTION 23237: FINE CHINESE ART, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET