A CHINESE WUCAI 'PEACOCK' VASE

A CHINESE WUCAI 'PEACOCK' VASE
17TH CENTURY

Painted to the exterior with a large peacock perched on rockwork amidst large peony blossoms and gnarled prunus branches, with birds in flight, all set against an iron-red diaper ground, mounted with ormolu as a table lamp, 37cm the vase, 63cm overall.

Cf. T Canepa and K Butler, Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain, p.346, no.III.3.9.4, for a similar vase with phoenix, and with details regarding the dating of these vases.