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A VERY RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE ‘DEER
AND ROCK’ INCENSE HOLDER
MING DYNASTY, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
The piece is moulded as a deer standing four-square with its head
turned back, and the body decorated with scattered flowerheads,
in front of a long slender pierced ornamental rock detailed with
grassy shoots and flowering branches rising above the deer, all
above a raised oval platform encircled by a band of landscape
decoration.
6 æ in. (17 cm) high
HK$150,000-200,000 US$20,000-26,000
Very few groups of this type are known. A similar group but
with cranes, reputedly from the collection of the Dutch artist
Rembrandt van Rijn, was included in the S. Marchant and Son
exhibition entitled Exhibition of Ming Blue and White Porcelain,
The Drs. A. M. Sengers Collection, London, November 2001;
a further deer and crane group with a comparable rockwork
base is in the Victoria and Albert Museum, accession no.
C133-1928.

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