A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE YEN YEN VASES

KANGXI 1662-1722

Each painted in bright underglaze blue with four deer and three cranes in a rocky landscape, the rims and shoulders with stylised cloud bands, the feet with simple lappets, 45.8cm. (2)

Provenance: sold by Spink & Son, in the 1970s and formerly in the Chang Collection in California in the 1980s.

Cf. Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci, pp.476-477, nos.307 & 308 and also C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.98, no.88 for similar vases. See also C R Min, The Gu Gong Museum Collection of Qing Dynasty Blue and White Porcelain, Shunzi and Kangxi Period Underglaze Blue, pp.476-477, nos.307 & 308.