A PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'DEER' PLATES

SIX CHARACTER KANGXI MARKS AND OF THE PERIOD 1662-1722

Each painted to the centre with four deer in a river landscape beneath a pine tree, with a waterfall cascading from rocky cliffs behind, the scene surrounded by cartouches enclosing bowls of peaches and pomegranates, the panels reserved on a broad band of hexagonal diaper, with fishermen in boats and mountains to the reverse, 27cm. (2)