Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai brushpot, bitong, Kangxi period, 1662-1722. Photo Marchant

painted with two scholars and their attendants carrying a wrapped qin and tied scroll on their backs, all in a continuous landscape with rockwork and winter branches, beneath iron-red clouds and a yellow moon. The base with wide unglazed band and recessed glazed centre. 5 inches, 12.8 cm high. Price on request

From an Italian private collection.

Notes: Included by Marchant in their catalogue of Recent Acquisitions, 2004, 6, p. 23.

A similar brushpot with scholar and children is illustrated by Wang Qingzheng in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, no. 111, pp. 166/7.