TWO COPPER-RED AND CELADON-DECORATED CARVED BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASES, KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

TWO COPPER-RED AND CELADON-DECORATED CARVED BLUE AND WHITE BEAKER VASES
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARKS IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE WITHIN DOUBLE CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)
The neck is carved with a phoenix standing on a blue and celadon rock surrounded by peonies, the rounded mid-section is decorated with two chilong writhing amidst lingzhi, and the lower body is decorated with an inverted scene of narcissus and lily plants growing on either side of a celadon-glazed rock.
16 3/8 and 16 ¾ in. (41.5 and 42.3 cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., London, 18 November 1983, lot 17.
The Lenora and Walter F. Brown Collection, San Antonio, Texas.

PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF LENORA AND WALTER F. BROWN