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A similar jar in the National Palace Museum, Taipei, is illustrated in Minji ⚛
meihin zuroku, Tokyo, 1978, vol. II, pl. 101; one from the collection of Tamisuke 㧒
Yokogawa, now in the Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, is published in Illustrated
Catalogue of Tokyo National Museum. Chinese Ceramics, Tokyo, 1990, ⚛
vol. II, pl. 330; another is illustrated in Sekai toji zenshu/ Ceramic Art of the
World, vol. 14, Tokyo, 1976, pl. 218; and a fourth from the collection of Ernest
Grandidier in the Musée Guimet, Paris, is published in Oriental Ceramics. The
World’s Great Collections, Tokyo, 1981, vol. 7, col. pl. 26. See also a further jar
in the Schlossmuseum, Berlin, included in the exhibition Chinesische Kunst,
Preussische Akademie de Künste, Berlin, 1929, cat. no. 739.

Several jars painted with this motif have been sold at auction: ve were sold in
our London rooms, the rst, 11th July 1978, lot 191, the second, 16th June 1999,
lot 794, the third, 10th November 2004, lot 564, the fourth, 14th May 2009, lot
566, and the fth, 12th May 2010, lot 20; and a further example lacking the
reign mark, from the collection of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Farnham, was sold
at Christie’s London, 7th November 2006, lot 184.

The motif of ‘one hundred deer’ was revived during the Qianlong reign in
famille-rose enamels; see one jar in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in
The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum. Porcelains with
Cloisonné Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration, Hong Kong, 1999,
pl. 85; and another sold in these rooms, 16th March 2016, lot 321.