A BLUE AND WHITE 'CRANE AND DEER' YENYEN VASEKangxi The body boldly painted with a continuous scene of a pair of cranes in flight above a spotted doe turning to look at an antlered deer, all amidst rocks and pines, the flaring neck also with a crane in flight above two recumbent deer amid rockwork and pines. 46.5cm (18 1/4in) high. 清康熙 青花「鶴鹿同春」鳳尾尊 Provenance : George Kidston CMG, Head of the Eastern Department of the British Foreign Office, 1919-1920, and thence by descent to the the estate of the late Hon. Mrs Patricia A. Kidston (1927-2021). 來源 ：George Kidston勳爵舊藏，曾於1919年至1920年任英國外交部東方事務部主管；並由後人Patricia A. Kidston夫人（1927-2021）保存 A similar albeit slightly smaller yenyen vase, Kangxi, also decorated with deer and cranes in the Gardiner Museum of Chinese Art, is illustrated in Cobalt Treasures: The Bell Collection of Chinese Blue and White Porcelain , Toronto, 2003, p.62. pare with a similar blue and white 'crane and deer' yenyen vase, Kangxi , which was sold at London, 8 November 2012, lot 44.