KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A CHINESE EXPORT PORCELAIN FAMILLE VERTE STAG EWER
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Modeled seated on its haunches and glazed with an ochre coat and cream spots, applied on its arched back with pine branches and a loop handle, the head turned sharply to its left, a sacred lingzhi fungus in its mouth, its neck issuing a spout, together with a plaster replacement cover issuing antlers and ears
9 ½ in. (24.1 cm.) high

Provenance

With Polly Latham Asian Art, Boston (according to label).
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1 December 1997, lot 373.
Acquired by Ann and Gordon Getty from the above.

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Lot Essay

For a similar pair of spotted-deer ewers, circa 1680, see A. Du Boulay, Christie's Pictorial History of Chinese Ceramics, Englewood Cliffs, 1984, p. 291, fig. 3. Du Boulay notes that the illustrated examples are "probably the same as the 'two browne painted staggs' mentioned in the Burghley House inventory of 1688".

Several examples of the present model are recorded with decoration in 'splashed' sancai colors. A pair in the Royal Collection is preserved in the King's Little Bedchamber at Hampton Court Palace and is illustrated in J. Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, London, 2016 vol. I, pp. 150-151, nos. 292 and 293. Another sancai example is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum, New York (accession no. 24.80.257 a, b).

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