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A FAMILLE ROSE 'HUNDRED DEER' VASE
PROBABLY 20TH CENTURY
Of archaistic form, the full-bodied vase painted
with a herd of deer, comprising bucks, does and
their young with reddish-brown fur, spotted hide
and dappled white coats, grazing, gamboling
and resting in a lush landscape, amidst pine and
peach trees, lingzhi, and a meandering stream
fowing through blue-shaded rockwork from high
mountains in the distance, the tapering sides set
with a pair of deer head handles, apocryphal six-
character puce Qianlong mark
18½ in. (47 cm.) high
$5,000-8,000
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A PAIR OF SPANIEL PUPPIES
QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)
Seated in mirror image gazing upwards with open
jaws, wearing bell-hung green collars, their coats
picked out in iron-red fur markings with white
patches, black noses and eyes
6⅝ in. (16.8 cm.) high (2)
$7,000-10,000
PROVENANCE:
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 21 January
2009, lot 48.
LITERATURE:
William R. Sargent, Chinese Porcelain in the Conde
Collection, Madrid, 2014, pp. 194-195.
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