PROVENANCE: From Private estate collections of Jullias Phillips (1923 - 2017), Marietta, Georgia. When WWII started, Jullias worked at the Charleston Navy Yard helping build ships to protect our country and the world. They moved to Charleston, one of America oldest city with many historical building and antiques. Start from here, Jullias love to collect porcelains and many other antiques, and many year later they came back to Marietta, Georgia. Dimensions: 1-5/8" H x 7-1/2" Dia. Chinese Qing Dynasty Period, QianLong polychrome hundred deer plate. Potted in shallow vessel form, thick and large, with broad wide central interior, rounded cavetto gently tapering to open wide, with a straight open lip, raised with round shallow draft, slight concave base. The Interior decorated with hand-painting in clean white under glazed base color which contrast against the polychrome design color, depicted of hundred deer on the rocky mountain, bellow dense tree, beside lishui river, all in salubrious mountain landscape. The Hundred Deer motif is referring to a long career in civil service, since the Chinese word lu for deer is a homophone for emolument or civil service salary. The 'hundred Bai deer motif' therefore represent the ultimate success in Imperial China scholarly success and a long career in government service. The idea conveyed in the Hundred Deer design is a wish for great wealth and success. Jars decorated with the Hundred Deer motif can be more readily found painted in the wucai enamels. The deer symbolizes immortality and is the companion of Shoulao, the God of Longevity, while the inclusion of peaches and lingzhi fungus in the decoration is often a further symbolic of longevity. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned. Mark on base, a six red seal script characters reign mark, Made in The Years of QianLong Reign Period of Great Qing Dynasty.