A RARE COPPER-RED-DECORATED PHOENIX YUHUCHUNPING

Description:

China, Yuan dynasty
H. 28 cm
The pear-shaped body is painted in underglaze red with a pair of phoenix amidst leafy stems below a band of four upright petals enclosing scrolls, all between line borders, and under a blue-green-toned glaze.
European private collection, according to the owners assembled before 2007
A smaller decorated yuhuchunping, dated Yuan dynasty, ca. first half 14th century, is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and illustrated by Suzanne G. Valenstein in A Handbook of Chinese Ceramics, New York, 1989 ed., p. 135, no. 131
Good condition