Lot 91. A doucai 'stag and pine' saucer dish, Yongzheng six-character mark and of the period (1723-1735); 16cm (6 3/8in) diam. Sold for £6,875 (€8,976). © Bonhams 2001-2016.

Decorated at the centre with a deer grazing beneath a pine tree within a fenced garden below wispy clouds, encircled by further deer alternating with rockwork, foliage and sprigs of lingzhi, the exterior with a continuous foliage scroll. 

Provenance: a European private collection, acquired between 1960-70, and thence by descent 

Note: Compare a related doucai dish similarly decorated with deers under pine trees, Xuande six-character mark, Kangxi period, in the Shanghai Museum Collection, illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, p.262-263, no.170. Another similar example, Chenghua six-character, Kangxi period, was sold in Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2013, lot 175.

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