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325 A FAMILLE-VERTE ⌲Ꮴ⛆᱘ 䯺ₐ݊ ρᒖ䰆厬ృ⯹
‘DEER’ BOWL
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Qing Dynasty, Late Kangxi / Early Yongzheng D M Freedman⧍侚2003䎃
Period
the rounded sides rising from a straight foot The restrained composition and depiction the base reinforces the benevolent themes.
to an everted rim, the exterior " nely enameled of deer of a sweet, docile nature conveys Few examples of this type are known. A pair
with a stag and a doe recumbent alongside one a delicacy and sensitivity in keeping with of similarly decorated bowls, attributed to the
another on a speckled green knoll, their bodies porcelains produced late in the Kangxi period Yongzheng period, were sold in our London
turned towards each other, the opposite side and into the " rst years of the Yongzheng rooms 1st-2nd April 1974, lot 314; and a dish
with " ve iron-red bats swooping through period. The subject matter, a pair of spotted with a six-character Yongzheng mark was
the air, the interior plain, the base with an deer (lu) and " ve bats (wufu) is rife with good o# ered at Christie’s Hong Kong, 31st March
underglaze blue mark of composite Buddhist wishes for scholarly success, wealth, long 1992, lot 810.
emblems enclosed in a double-square within a life and happiness. The auspicious mark on

double circle, coll. no. 1363.
Diameter 7⅛ in., 18.1 cm
PROVENANCE
D & M Freedman, London, 2003.
$ 20,000-30,000

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