A Chinese flambé-glazed deer-handled vase. Hu

Reference: ART1001120

The vase is decorated with two openwork stag-head handles. It is covered with a deep purple and maroon glaze with blue highlights which thins to a crackled mushroom tone at the rim and upper part of the handles. The base with an apocryphal Yongzheng seal mark on a café-au-lait ground.