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A blue and white yenyen vase
Kangxi
The body painted with a continuous scene of one
crane in flight and one perched on a pine tree, two
deer recumbent beneath a craggy rock and swirling
clouds, the neck with an identical scene.
46.5cm (18 1/4in) high

£4,000 - 6,000
HK$50,000 - 75,000
CNY40,000 - 59,000

清康熙 青花松鶴鹿紋鳳尾尊

Provenance 來源:
Sotheby’s London, 8 June 1982, lot 149
Desmond R.Laurence Collection, no.309
Roy Davids Collection, no.90

Compare another yenyen vase, decorated in
a similar style also with deer and cranes in the
Gardiner Museum of Chinese Art, illustrated in
Cobalt Treasures: The Bell Collection of Chinese
Blue and White Porcelain, Toronto, 2003, p.62. A
related vase also with cranes sold in these rooms, 8
November 2012, lot 44.

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