DEACCESSIONED FROM THE COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG FOUNDATION TO BENEFIT THE JOSEPH H. AND JUNE S. HENNAGE ACQUISITION FUND A SUPERB FAMILLE-VERTE 'GOLDEN PHEASANT' YENYEN VASEKangxi period Superbly painted in bright enamels in two wide panels to the neck and body, the tall neck with flaring rim centered by a continuous scene of a pair of golden pheasants standing amidst geometric rock work and large full peony flower heads and leafy branches, the high-shouldered body with two birds in flight descending to further geometric rock work and large full peony flower heads and leafy branches, all divided by a simple cell and flower band and bordered at the foot by iron red diaper band and with classic scroll at the rim, a double circle mark to the base. 18in (45.7cm) high 清康熙時期 五彩鳳凰花卉紋鳳尾尊 Vases of this form and size include one depicting a scene of birds amongst flowers from the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, that sold at Christie's New York, 6 June 1985, lot 406; another depicting lotus flowers, illustrated in Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong. Porcelain from the Palace Museum Collection , Hong Kong, 1989, pp. 53, pl. 36, and one illustrated by Toru Nakano, The Panoramic Views of Chinese Patterns , Tokyo, 1985, pl. 142 For a larger example of the same shape and also painted with golden pheasants on rockwork, see Mayuyama, Seventy Years , Volume One, Tokyo, 1976, p. 344, no. 1032. Related bird and flower designs are also known on yenyen vases of this size in underglaze blue; one in the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci , Bejing, 2005, pl. 305; and another in the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai, published in Kangxi Porcelain Wares , Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 68-1. Birds painted in pairs suggest that this may have been presented on the occasion of a marriage. See Sotheby's Hong Kong, 9 October 2012, lot 3066, for an identically-sized example with bird and floral decoration but differing in the placement of the birds with the golden pheasants painted to the body and the paired birds above.