A Chinese blue and white 'phoenix and ruyi' jar and coverQing dynasty, early 19th centuryThe sturdily potted jar rising from a short tapered foot to broad shoulders, painted to the exterior with scrolling foliage between a band of ruyi heads on scrolling foliage ground to the shoulders and a band of alternating ruyi heads above the foot, the cover painted with an archaistic phoenix within a double circle to the centre, 34cm high, 27cm across. 清十九世紀 青花繪鳳凰如意紋大蓋罐