Each boldly painted around the body with a continuous scene of a pair of cranes in flight above an antlered deer turning to look at a doe, all surrounded by rocks and pines, the flaring necks also with a crane in flight above a recumbent antlered deer amid rockwork and pines. Each 45.8cm (18in) high (2). 

Provenance:  Spink & Son Ltd., London, circa 1970. 
Dr. Lowell S. Young, San Francisco, collection nos.17a and 17b. 

Notes: Compare with another vase, slightly smaller but decorated in a very similar style also with deer and cranes in the Gardiner Museum of Chinese Art, illustrated in Cobalt Treasures: The Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain, Toronto, 2003, p.62; for another similar vase see C.J.A.Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1997, p.98, pl.88b. 

A single related 'deer and cranes' phoenix-tail vase was sold at Christie's London on 8 November 2011, lot 380.

A blue and white 'phoenix tail' vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722). Estimate GBP 15,000 - GBP 20,000 (USD 24,000 - USD 32,000). Price Realised  GBP 32,450 (USD 52,017) at Christie's London, 8 November 2011, lot 380. Photo Christie's Images Ltd 2011.

The exterior of the body decorated in bright shades of cobalt blue with a continuous scene of two deer cavorting between tall pine trees, below a crane in flight and another crane resting on a branch, the flaring neck painted with a similar scene; 18 in. (45.8 cm.) high.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART, 10 november 2016, 10:30 GMT, LONDON, NEW BOND STREET