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This small but beguiling sculpture captures an intimate moment as a recumbent deer scratches its muzzle with its left hind leg. This deer is a rare example of realistic sculpture from the Yixing kilns, which are famous for their tea wares but also produced small sculptures of animals, plants, nuts, and fruits from the eighteenth century onward
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清 宜興窯臥鹿
Title: Recumbent deer
Period: Qing dynasty (1644–1911)
Date: 18th century
Culture: China
Medium: Stoneware (Yixing ware)
Dimensions: H. 5 1/8 in. (13 cm); W. 5 1/2 in. (14 cm)
Classification: Ceramics
Credit Line: Bequest of Mrs. Charles Wrightsman, 2019
Object Number: 2019.281.4
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