CHINESE HUNDRED DEER FAMILLE ROSE PORCELAIN VASE, HU,Qianlong underglazed blue seal mark, Guangxu period. Pear-shaped, painted to depict a horde of deers in a mountainous landscape, flanked by two archaistic stylized iron red dragon-form handles - 18 in. high. Estimate $6,000-8,000
For similar examples of the Qianlong period see one from the Qing Court collection, in the Palce Museum, Beijing, in "The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Porcelain with Cloisonne Enamel Decoration and Famille Rose Decoration", Hong Kong, ill, pl. 85; and in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in "Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hu. Shanghai, 1989, no, 67.
In Chinese a hundred deer is bai lu which suggest the wish shoutian bailu " May you receive the hundred emoluments from heaven" a multiplied wish for wealth, rank and longivity.
PROVENANCE: Estate of Dorothy Botwen Parker,Washington, D.C.
General good condition except for three chips on mouth; minute chips on handles, and a hairline
