A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE GREEN-GROUND 'PHOENIX-TAIL’ VASE18TH-19TH CENTURYThe body is decorated with four quatrefoil panels, three with officials standing in a landscape and the fourth with a scholar seated in an interior dreaming. The shoulder is decorated with cartouches of a crane flying amidst clouds, below a band of cloud motifs in iron red, the trumpet-shaped neck featuring a similar band of panels enclosing officials and cranes, all reserved on an emerald-green ground.14 in. (35.5 cm.) high