A FAMILLE VERTE ‘PHOENIX’ PORCELAIN WINE COOLER, KANGXI PERIODChina, 1662-1722. The globular body supported on a short spreading foot and rising to a broad cylindrical neck set with two shell-molded handles below the bulbous mouth and lipped rim. Finely decorated in gilt and bright enamels to the exterior with birds and flowers above a band of shaped panels enclosing floral sprays against a floral diapered ground, the foot with a scroll band, the neck with phoenixes and peonies, the mouth with a floral band, the handles with scrolling vines. The interior sparsely decorated with a floral band below the rim and a floral spray to the base.Provenance: From an old French private estate.Condition: Very good condition with some wear to gilt and enamels, expected firing flaws including glaze recesses and dark spots, and minor chips to the foot.Weight: 668.7 gDimensions: Height 13.8 cmLiteratureparison:Compare a related famille verte wine cooler, of different form, but with closely related decoration, 21 cm high, also dated to the Kangxi period, illustrated by David S. Howard, A tale of Three Cities, Canton, Shanghai and Hong Kong – Three Centuries of Sino-British Trade in the Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s London, 1997, no. 106.康熙時期硬彩鳳穿牡丹冰酒器中國，1662-1722年。敞口，口沿下微鼓，兩側有貝殼狀手柄，頸部微束，鼓腹，短圈足。外壁描金，精美琺瑯描繪鳳穿牡丹紋，頸部有鳳凰和牡丹，腹部白地纏枝花卉紋。器內纏枝花卉紋。