A CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE YEN YEN VASE

KANGXI 1662-1722

Painted in bright underglaze blue with four deer and four cranes in a rocky landscape, the rim and foot with dentil bands, 46.5cm.

Cf. Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao Qinghua Ci, pp.476-477, nos.307 and 308 and also C Jörg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, p.98 no.88 for similar vases.