Lot 43. A pair of blue and white baluster jars and covers, 19th century. Each 46.5cm (18 1/4in) high (4). Sold for £6,875 (€8,872). © Bonhams 2001-2016.

Similarly painted around the body with a continuous scene of a pair of cranes above a deer, all amid rockwork and pine trees, the necks surrounded by ruyi borders, the domed covers with mountainous landscapes. 

Provenance: an English private collection, assembled in Hong Kong from 1967-1989, and thence by descent

Exhibited, Published and Illustrated: The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong, Exhibition of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain and related Underglaze Red, Hong Kong, February 1975, no.119

Bonhams. AUCTION 23237: FINE CHINESE ART, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET