A CELADON-GROUND BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED 'LONGEVITY' VASEQING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

of well potted baluster form rising to a slightly flaring neck encircled by a single raised fillet, the sides with white slip decoration painted in underglaze-blue and copper red with contentedly grazing deer beneath a towering pine tree and cranes flying overhead, the base glazed white with double rings in underglaze blue, coll. no. 721 

Marchant, London, 1999.

The vase is in good overall condition, there is a small glazed over potting flaw and a burst glaze bubble at the rim.
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