A Chinese blue and white ‘deer and crane’ ovoid jar, Kangxi ...

Hammer

£7,000

A Chinese blue and white ‘deer and crane’ ovoid jar, Kangxi period, the exterior painted with a continuous scene of three deer and three cranes in a rocky river landscape with pine trees, 21cm high, matching wood cover and stand

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Provenance - UK private collection, 1920s or earlier, thence by family descent.
This collection of late Ming and Qing dynasty porcelain and bronze vessels has been owned by a single Cotswold family for a number of generations dating back to the 1920s or earlier.
The collection was formerly on display at the family home in Chipping Campden, Gloucestershire, UK before the house was sold in the 1980s. Some interior photos taken c.1982 show a number of the pieces on display in the family house and an inventory undertaken in 1948 by the local Campden auctioneer and valuer Alfred Bower lists many of the items. Extracts of the 1948 inventory are included where they correspond to the relevant lots in the sale.
Item 317 on 1948 inventory.

Typical minor glaze imperfections and some scratching to the glaze. A small indentation in manufacture on the inside of the rim, hairline crack to unglazed rim, otherwise in good condition with no restoration, chips or cracks detected. The wood Cover and stand have some age cracks.