VASE WITH A PAIR OF PHEASANTS IN BLOSSOMING PEONIES.
China. Qing dynasty. 19th c.

Porcelain; painted in famille jaune. The baluster shaped vase with flared lip. Painted with a pair of pheasants sitting on a rock beneath flowering peony and magnolia with hovering butterflies above. At the neck more peonies and flowering prunus. On the shoulder borders with geometrical patterns and triangle chime stones; at the foot a leaf border. Height 46.3cm. Underneath in iron red on a turquoise background an apocryphal six-partite Kangxi mark; but later. Condition C. Lip rim with old restoration.

Provenance:
-Private collection Southern Germany. From an ancestor who was in honorary diplomatic service for Japan acquired locally in the 1920s.Art trade; Van Ham.