Property of an Important Midwestern Collection
A Rare Pair of Chinese Underglaze-blue and Copper-red Decorated Stag-form Vessels, Qing Dynasty, Early 19th Century | 清十九世紀初 青花釉裏紅瑞鹿形器一對
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Property of an Important Midwestern Collection
A Rare Pair of Chinese Underglaze-blue and Copper-red Decorated Stag-form Vessels
Qing Dynasty, Early 19th Century
清十九世紀初 青花釉裏紅瑞鹿形器一對
each modeled recumbent with head turned slightly to one side, the fur simulated in copper-red with details picked out in underglaze blue, the back with a quatrefoil-shaped aperture
length 12 1/8 in.; 30.9 cm
A. & J. Speelman Ltd., London, 1992
A single example, formerly in the collection of Mildred and Rafi Mottahedeh, is illustrated in David Howard and John Ayers, China For the West, London, 1974, vol. II, cat. no. 640, and was sold at Christie's New York, January 21st, 1999, lot 163. Another example, formerly in the collection of Thomas M. Evans, sold at Christie's New York, June 18th, 1998, lot 236. Howard and Ayers suggest that this type of deer vessel was likely made for the domestic Chinese market and probably functioned as a brush-washer for the scholar.