mark and period painted with deer in a continuous landscape with rocks, pine trees and prunus, below four bands of ruyi and flower scrolls at the neck and rim and two further bands of ruyi and flowers at the foot, the base with a large underglaze blue six-character Qianlong seal mark 46.5cm high
(broken and repaired)
For a similar deer vase, see Imperial Perfection, The Palace Porcelain of Three Chinese Emperors, A Selection From the Wang Xing Lou Collection, Thompson, Julian, Hong Kong, 2004, cat no 27, p. 84. For another example see Christie’s London, 9th December 1985, lot 124, from the L. van der Heyden à Hauzer Collection, no. 1140.