Page 117 - 2019 September 10th Sotheby's Important Chinese Art Jades, Met Museum Irving Collection NYC

46 A FAMILLE-VERTE ‘MAGPIE’
BRUSHPOT
㶭 Ḽ QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
⹟ ⼑ of cylindrical form, brightly enameled with two rectangular Ը๕
䅁ġġġ 攳 panels each enclosing a poem and a ‘bird and ß ower’ painting
⃱ featuring a magpie, one perched on a prunus branch, the other œŢŭűũġŎįġńũŢŪŵġňŢŭŭŦųŪŦŴ炻䲸䲬炻IJĺĹij⸜IJIJ㚰IJĸ㖍
剙 mid-ß ight by a pond grasping a lotus pod between its feet, one ἃ伭ΐ㕗ġĩIJĺijıĮijıIJĹĪġ⍲崓ỗ䈡ġĩIJĺIJĸĮijıIJķĪɀ
沍 poem signed Zhu Yin and the other signed Yun An, all reserved 㫸暚ằ⃟㓞啷炻䶐嘇ĸijIJ
⚾ against a chevron emerald-green ground between dentil, keyfret
娑 and abstract kuilong borders
㔯
䫮
䫺 Height 5¼ in., 13.3 cm

PROVENANCE
Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 17th November 1982.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016)
Irving, no. 721.
$ 4,000-6,000

CHINESE ART FROM THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING GIFT 115