A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu

A Chinese gilt-ground famille rose millefleurs deer-head handled pear shaped vase, hu

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The vase is decorated with two deer head handles to the shoulders, the globular body is decorated with a circular panel enclosing to one side Budai accompanied with boys at play, and to the other side with a reading scholar seated in a grotto below two swallows. The panels are reserved on a gilt ground decorated with a multitude of large blooms. The interior and base are glazed turquoise, with an apocryphal Qianlong mark.