Lot 1457. A famille-rose 'Deer' vase, Qing dynasty, 19th century. Height 20 1/2  in., 52.1 cm. Estimate $2,500 - $3,500. Sold: $12,500. © Sotheby's

the slightly compressed spherical body rising to a gently waisted neck, vibrantly enameled with a continuous scene of deer variously grazing, resting and gazing up towards a pair of mischievous monkeys perched high up among the expansive branches of a towering pine tree, observing a spider spinning a delicate web, all within a verdant setting of varying foliage and rockwork,  the base with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.

Provenance: Collection of Dr. Frederick Innes (1917-2005), Boston.
Acquired in Boston 1940s-60s, and thence by descent.

Property from the Collection of Jeannette Curuby.

Sotheby's. Saturday at Sotheby's: Asian Art, New York, 18 March 2017