Note: There appears to be no other published examples of this highly unusual combination of underglaze-red and blue decorated 'Hundred Deer' with Daoist figures on a hexagonal vase with faux bamboo borders.  The fine pencil brushstrokes are characteristic of 18th century blue and white vessels.  Compare a lantern vase decorated with underglaze-red and blue deer, mark and period of Qianlong from the Wang Xing Lou Collection illustated in Imperial Perfection: The Palace Porcelain of Three Emperors, A Selection from the Wang Xing Lou Collection, Hong Kong 2004, pp. 84-85, cat.no. 27.  Compare Daoist figural decoration set in an outdoor landscape on an 18th century blue and white wall vase sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd November 1998, lot 396.  For another blue and white example of a finely painted deer vase see a vase sold our Hong Kong rooms, 30th April, 1991, lot 55.

Sotheby's. Fine Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art, including Property from the Collection of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, 19-20 march 2007