Fine Asian Art - 11th November 2025

Lot 161

A CHINESE ROCK CRYSTAL 'PHOENIX' GROUP

Estimate £3,000 - £5,000 | Hammer £4064

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Description

A CHINESE ROCK CRYSTAL 'PHOENIX' GROUP
18TH CENTURY

Comprising a brush washer and waterpot, the waterpot formed as a hollowed peach, the brush washer worked as a tree trunk, with an elegant phoenix, peony and lingzhi issuing from branches and picked out in the pale green section of the stone, 12.7cm.

From the Portersfield Collection, London, purchased from Roger Keverne Ltd, 17th June 2008, Summer Exhibition, item 99.

For a similar but larger example, see the rock crystal 'phoenix' group sold in these rooms on 14th November 2023 from the Lawrence Jade collection. See also another related rock crystal vessel in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no. C.1747A/2-1910, illustrated in Rawson and Ayers, Chinese Jade: Throughout The Ages, no.486.

十八世紀 水晶雕鳳戲牡丹筆插
來源：倫敦Portersfield收藏，2008年6月17日購於Roger Keverne Ltd夏季展·編號99。