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THE PROPERTY OF A LADY
女士藏品
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A RARE GILT-BRONZE-MOUNTED CLOISONNÉ
ENAMEL ‘HUNDRED DEER’ VASE
Late 18th century
The vase with archaistic hu shape featuring a pear-
shaped body rising from a short spreading foot to
an everted rim, decorated around the exterior with
several deer in a rocky landscape, below cranes
hovering amidst ruyi cloud scrolls, the shoulder
flanked by a pair of gilt-copper dragon handles, with
later elaborate gilt-bronze mounts meticulously cast
and pierced with lion masks to the base and shou
characters to the rim. 49cm (19 2/8in) high;
with mounts 81.5cm (32in) high. (3).

£15,000 - 25,000
CNY130,000 - 220,000
十八世紀末 銅胎掐絲琺瑯百鹿尊

Provenance: a European private collection

來源： 歐洲私人收藏

The deer symbolises both career advancement and
also long life, while the cranes are additional symbols
of long life. The theme of deer was highly favoured by
the Qianlong emperor, as numerous court paintings
dating to his reign and porcelain vases decorated
with the ‘hundred deer’ theme have been preserved.
In addition the combination of deer and cranes
appear on a small number of other 18th century
cloisonne enamelled vessels. Compare with a related
cloisonné enamel ‘hundred deer’ vase, Qing dynasty,
in the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum,
Massachusetts, illustrated in Cloisonné: Chinese
Enamels from the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties,
New York, 2011, p.101 fig.5.36.

A similar gilt-bronze-mounted cloisonné enamel
‘hundred deer’ vase, Qianlong period, the mounts
later, possibly the pair to the present lot, was sold at
Sotheby’s London, 13 May 2009, lot 28.

For details of the charges payable in addition to the final Hammer Price of each Lot
please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue.