A FAMILLE-ROSE 'HUNDRED DEER' VASE QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY

of archaistic hu-shape, the rounded side vividly enameled with a lively continuous scene of deer resting, grazing, playing and even combatting all amidst a verdant setting of lush grass, towering evergreens and fruiting peach trees punctuated with blue and green-shaded rock formations, the stags, does and fawns depicted as dappled or spotted in brown, iron-red or white, the shoulder flanked with a pair of stag-head handles, the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark

Collection of a Connecticut family since the 1960s, acquired by the present owner in 2004.

One of the handles is missing the tip of one antler, otherwise the vase is in good condition.
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