A rare figure of a recumbent deer Qing dynasty, 18th/19th century | 清十八/十九世紀 褐釉瑞鹿擺件

See two related deers from the collection of the the Hon. Mrs Neillie Ionides, attributed to the Kangxi period, one sold in these rooms, 2nd July 1963, lot 56; the other, illustrated in Victor Rienaecker, 'Fantasies of Chinese Ceramic art', Country Life Annual, 1956, fig. 1.

The dating of this lot is consistent with the result of a thermoluminescence test, Oxford authentication Ltd., no. P121m81.