A large blue and white brushpot. Late Ming dynasty. Photo Bonhams

Finely and sturdily potted in cylindrical form with steep and slightly waisted sides, the exterior with a main frieze of a scholar seated in an open pavilion reading a book under the candle light, his concentration distracted by a woman seated in the garden, their eyes locked in passion, both figures observed by an elderly sage and a demonic figure, the sage holding a gnarled staff and the demon with a forked spear, travelling in the distance on a swirling clouds over water, all set against a background of mountainous landscape complete with rivers, rockworks and overhanging willow trees, all enclosed within a pair of incised anhua cloud bands, the interior plain and base unglazed. 20cm  diam.Estimate: HK$500,000 - 600,000, US$ 64,000 - 77,000. Unsold

晚明 青花人物故事圖筆筒

Provenance 來源: Piurchased in Amsterdam during early 1980s
Ove Stenbeck Collection, no.41

Exhibited 展覽: Den Befriade Penseln. 300 År av Kinesiskt Porslin och Konsthantverk. Collection Stenbeck, Heinola, Finland, 4 June - 3 September 2000.

Bonhams. FINE CHINESE ART, 28 Nov 2011. Hong Kong www.bonhams.com