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A pair of blue and white 'deer and cranes' 'phoenix-tail' vases Kangxi (2) image 1
A pair of blue and white 'deer and cranes' 'phoenix-tail' vases Kangxi (2) image 2
A pair of blue and white 'deer and cranes' 'phoenix-tail' vases Kangxi (2) image 3
Lot 35

A pair of blue and white 'deer and cranes' 'phoenix-tail' vases
Kangxi

10 November 2016, 10:30 GMT
London, New Bond Street

£30,000 - £50,000

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A pair of blue and white 'deer and cranes' 'phoenix-tail' vases

Kangxi
Each boldly painted around the body with a continuous scene of a pair of cranes in flight above an antlered deer turning to look at a doe, all surrounded by rocks and pines, the flaring necks also with a crane in flight above a recumbent antlered deer amid rockwork and pines.
Each 45.8cm (18in) high (2).

Footnotes

清康熙 青花鶴鹿同春鳳尾尊 一對

Provenance: Spink & Son Ltd., London, circa 1970.
Dr. Lowell S. Young, San Francisco, collection nos.17a and 17b.

來源: 約於1970年購自倫敦古董商Spink & Son Ltd.
美國三藩市Dr. Lowell S. Young收藏,藏品編號17a及17b

Compare with another vase, slightly smaller but decorated in a very 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; for another similar vase see C.J.A.Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1997, p.98, pl.88b.

A single related 'deer and cranes' phoenix-tail vase was sold at Christie's London on 8 November 2011, lot 380.

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