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Lot 233

A blue and white cylindrical brushpot, bitong
Kangxi

13 May 2010, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £8,400 inc. premium

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A blue and white cylindrical brushpot, bitong

Kangxi
Finely painted around the straight sides with groups of scholars engaged in three of the 'accomplishments'; seated around a table playing weiqi, admiring a scroll painting and listening to a scholar play the qin, all set within a garden landscape of rocky outcrops, bamboo and overhanging willow trees, the base with Chenghua six-character mark, wood stand.
16.1cm (6¼in) high (2).

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Provenance: according to the family, purchased by Paul Lauder in Asia circa 1934, and thence by descent

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