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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE CHICAGO COLLECTION
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DEER AND CRANE' VASE
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
Details
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'DEER AND CRANE' VASE
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The elegantly shaped vase is decorated on each side of the body with a deer grasping a sprig of lingzhi in its mouth and standing below a tree, with a crane perched towards the top and two bats in flight to one side, all between borders of ruyi heads above and petal lappets below. The slightly tapered neck is decorated with bats and lotus blossoms, flanked by a pair of angular scroll handles beneath the slightly everted rim.
12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
JIAQING SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND OF THE PERIOD (1796-1820)
The elegantly shaped vase is decorated on each side of the body with a deer grasping a sprig of lingzhi in its mouth and standing below a tree, with a crane perched towards the top and two bats in flight to one side, all between borders of ruyi heads above and petal lappets below. The slightly tapered neck is decorated with bats and lotus blossoms, flanked by a pair of angular scroll handles beneath the slightly everted rim.
12 ½ in. (31.7 cm.) high
Provenance
Collection of Chin Hai Wang, acquired in Taiwan before 1964, and thence by descent within the family.