Printed from Woolley & Wallis

Description

A LARGE CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'DEER AND CRANES' SCROLL BOWL, JUANGANG
KANGXI 1662-1722

The deep body painted with four cranes, one perches on a branch whilst the other three fly above ten deer, which are grazing amongst rockwork and pine trees, all below a narrow band of hatching to the rim, 55.5cm diameter.

Provenance: from an English private collection, purchased c.1958 in West Sussex from a Mrs Betty Bate, an antique dealer, by the current owner's mother. The scrollbowl formerly the property of General Sir Frederick Ivor Maxse, KCB CVO DSO DL 1862-1958, a senior British Army officer who fought in Sudan under Field Marshal Earl Kitchener of Khartoum, in the Boer War and the First World War. In 1914 he was promoted to Major-General and was appointed to the command of the 18th Division, which he led in France from 1914 to 1917. He retired in 1936 to Little Bognor, West Sussex.

For a comparable Kangxi example in blue and white and underglaze red decorated with fish, see The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, accession no. PO 968 illustrated in Eva Ströber, La maladie de porcelaine: East Asian Porcelain from the Collection of Augustus the Strong, p.54, no.20. See also Bonhams San Francisco, 29th June 2009, lot 8192 for a similar Kangxi jardinière painted with birds and foliage.

清康熙 青花鶴鹿同春紋卷缸
來源：英國私人收藏。大約1958年，現藏家的母親在西薩塞克斯郡從古董商貝蒂·貝特夫人（Mrs. Betty Bate）處購得。
此卷缸曾歸英國陸軍高級將領弗雷德裏克·伊沃·馬克斯爵士（General Sir Frederick Ivor Maxse, KCB CVO DSO DL, 1862-1958）所有。馬克斯爵士曾在蘇丹戰爭中於霍雷肖•赫伯特•基奇納元帥麾下作戰，並參與了布爾戰爭及第一次世界大戰。1914年，他晉升為少將，並被任命為第18師師長，率部於1914年至1917年在法國作戰。1936年，他退役並隱居於西薩塞克斯郡小博格諾（Little Bognor）。