A blue and white brush pot with deer in a landscape

Description:

China, probably Kangxi period
H. 17,7/ D. 18,2 cm
Cylindrical with recessed circular and glazed reserve on the otherwise unglazed stand. Surrounding garden landscape with rocks and a pair of deer next to a watercourse in graduated underglaze blue.
From an old Southern German private collection, acquired at Nagel on 15 May 1999, lot 2224 - Small old overpainted glaze imperfection below the left deer