Lot Essay
The porcelain bodies of these vases are almost identically decorated to the pair of Louis XV ormolu-mounted Kangxi porcelain ewers in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Differently mounted but displaying a very close composition of deer and flowering trees in underglazed copper red and blue on a similar pale grey-green celadon ground, they are illustrated in F.J.B. Watson and G.Wilson, Mounted Oriental Porcelain in the J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu, 1982, pp. 48-49.