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THE PROPERTY OF A EUROPEAN NOBLE FAMILY
歐洲貴族家族藏品

38 Y
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE ‘DEER’ VASE
Early 18th century
Of elongated ovoid form surmounted by a short
flaring neck and flaring rim, finely painted on the
body in vivid tones of cobalt-blue with a scene of
a deer and fawn beneath a large gnarled pine tree,
two birds flying above, all amidst a mountainous
landscape, wood stand.
19cm (7 1/2in) high. (2).

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY27,000 - 45,000

十八世紀早期 青花松鹿獻瑞圖瓶

Provenance: Francesco Maria, Marchese Taliani de
Marchio (1887 - 1968), Grand Officer of the Italian
Crown, Commander of the Order of St Maurice
and Lazarus, and Commander of the Order of
Pius IX (Ordine Piano), and his wife Archduchess
Margaretha d’Austria Toscana, Marchesa Taliani de
Marchio (1894–1986).

According to Marchese Taliani De Marchio’s
handwritten inventory, the vase was received as a
gift in 1943.

來源：意大利王室總督、聖莫里斯和拉撒路勳章司
令及皮尤斯九世勳章司令、佛朗西斯高·瑪利亞，塔
里安利·德·馬基奧侯爵（1887-1968），及馬加烈
特·奧地利-托斯卡納女大公、塔里安利·得·馬基奧女
侯爵（1894-1986）伉儷收藏

依據塔里安利·得·馬基奧女侯爵的清單手稿，該拍品
於1943年作為禮物贈予此家族。

Marchese Taliani was a distinguished Italian
diplomat. In 1938 he was appointed Ambassador
to China, where he remained until 1946; and
his last diplomatic appointment was in 1951 as
Ambassador to Spain until 1952.

The Chinese word for deer (lu 鹿), sounds like the
word for emolument or an official salary (lu 祿), thus
deer are symbolic of the rank and wealth that are
associated with such a salary. The word for deer is
also a homophone for ‘road’ and for ‘six’. Thus two
deer suggest two auspicious phrases: Lulu shunli,
‘May all roads be smooth’, and Liuliu dashun, ‘May
everything be smooth sailing’.

See a related blue and white ‘deer’ vase, Qianlong
mark and of the period, with similar motif but of
different shape, which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
Kong, 11 April 2008, lot 2830.

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please refer to paragraphs 7 & 8 of the Notice to Bidders at the back of the catalogue. FINE CHINESE ART | 45