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RARE ET GRAND VASE 'CENT DAIMS' EN ÉMAUX
PEINTS, HU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, ÉPOQUE QIANLONG-JIAQING
(1736-1820)
La panse balustre se rétrécissant vers le bord supérieur est
entièrement recouverte d'un paysage en continu peuplé de daims
gambadant parmi les pins et rochers sur un fond jaune vif. Il repose
sur un petit pied circulaire légèrement évasé. Il est flanqué de deux
prises latérales en forme de chauves-souris.
Hauteur : 41 cm. (16t in.)
€30,000-40,000 US$31,000-40,000
£27,000-35,000

PROVENANCE:
Previously from a European private collector.
A RARE LARGE PAINTED ENAMEL ‘HUNDRED DEER’ VASE, HU
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG-JIAQING PERIOD (1736-1820)
清Ү隆 嘉慶 黃地銅胎畫琺琅百鹿尊
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歐洲私Ӫ舊藏
This vase is a very rare example of a painted enamel vessel
adopting the form and decoration of a famille rose, or fencai
overglaze enamelled porcelain type. So called 'hundred deer'
vases are well known and much prized among the porcelains of
the Qianlong reign.
The theme of 'hundred deer' was adopted on porcelains in the
middle Ming period, and can be seen on a Wanli (AD 1573-1620)
wucai jar in the Musée Guimet, Paris (illustrated in The World's
Great Collections - Oriental Ceramics Vol. 7 - Musée Guimet,
Paris, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1981, no. 26) and on the pair of large
blue and white Wanli jars given to Queen Christina of Sweden by
the Portuguese Ambassador (see The World's Great Collections
- Oriental Ceramics Vol. 8 - Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities,
Stockholm, Kodansha, Tokyo, 1982, fig. 247). The theme of deer
was obviously one close to the Qianlong emperor's heart, as can
be seen in numerous court paintings dating to his reign as well as
the porcelain 'hundred deer' vases. His appreciation of the theme
also extended to cloisonné since a plaque from the collection
of S. Soames, decorated with a river landscape through which
wander the 'hundred deer' (see Sir Harry Garner, Chinese and
Japanese Cloisonné Enamels, Faber & Faber, London, 1962, p. 93
and pl. 77), is inscribed on the back of the plaque with a Qianlong
poem in which the emperor refers to the deer with their young in
the royal park, and how they are free from fear because they are
safe guarded by imperial decree from attack by archers with their
arrows.

See an almost identical yellow ground painted enamel 'hundred
deer' vase, dated Qianlong-Jiaqing period, sold at Christie's
London, 14 May 2013, lot 150.

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