for sale kangxi pottery

36×34cm

Made for a fifth rank civil official, the bird, a symbol of literary elegance, worked in white satin stitch alighting on a rock emerging from waves in which jewels are tossed, the bird surrounded by ruyi-shaped clouds and the sun finely worked in satin stitch in shades of blue, green, brown and coral with fine couched gold outline, the rock formation and the border worked in bright green peacock feather filament, all reserved on a dense ground of couched gold threads, within a scroll border