
A fine blue and white cylindrical brush pot, bitong. Kangxi. Photo Bonhams
Brightly painted with a continuous scene of a gentleman and his attendant enjoying conversation with a lady and her maid in a garden and an elderly lady before a screen waited on by various attendants, the base with a countersunk seal mark Xi Chao Chuan Gu (antique passed down from our glorious dynasty). 18.6cm (7 3/8in) diam. Estimate: £30,000 - 50,000, CNY 300,000 - 490,000, HK$ 360,000 - 600,000
Provenance: Sotheby's London, 16 June 1999, lot 914The...
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