A famille-rose 'hundred deer' vase, 20th century, of archaistic hu form, the sides painted with a continuous scene of deer on the banks of a lake in a landscape of trees and rockwork, set with two iron-red dragon-form handles on the tapering shoulders, the base inscribed in underglaze blue with an apocryphal six-character seal mark of Qianlong. 45 cm high. Compare with a hundred deer vase dated to the Republic period, sold Sotheby's, New York, 17 September 2016, lot 944.