Lot 73. A Chinese blue and white yenyen vase, Kangxi period (1662-1722), 46.5cm. Estimate: £3,000 - 5,000. Hammer Price £ 10,000. Courtesy Woolley & Wallis

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

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.

Woolley & Wallis. Asian Art Works I. 16 May 2017