A Chinese Famille-Verte 'Golden Pheasants and Flowers' Baluster Vase, Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period

Collection of Lee Van Ching (Li Wenqing) (circa 1869-1931), Shanghai
American Art Association Anderson Galleries, New York, February 7-8, 1930, lot 437 (frontispiece)
Collection of William H. Whitridge (1849-1936), Baltimore 
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, November 16-17, 1930, lot 355
Collection of Fredrick J. (d. 1968) and Antoinette H. (d. 1987) Van Slyke, Baltimore
Sotheby's New York, April 18-19, 1989, lot 302
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York
Wolf Family Collection No. 1066 (acquired from the above on May 24, 1993)

The Whitridge Collection of Chinese Pottery and Porcelain, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, 1930, cat. no. 151

Compare a very similar vase, but with denser decoration at the neck, from the Qing Court Collection and now in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, vol. 38, Hong Kong, 1999, pl. 74.