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A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE ‘ QILIN’ The present piece belongs to a very rare group of Hong Kong rooms, 11th April 2008, lot 3021. The
BRUSHWASHER Kangxi period washers, all of similar size, " nely thickly-potted form is more commonly found in
painted with auspicious mythological creatures blue and white brushwashers of the period, such
KANGXI MARK AND PERIOD
and inscribed with imperial reign marks. Only as a Kangxi mark and period example painted
sturdily potted, supported on a stepped circular two other examples nearly identical to the with a dragon illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain
base rising to gently ! aring, shallow sides, present washer are known, one from the J.M. Hu Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection,
brightly enameled to the center with a " erce qilin Collection, also inscribed with a six-character Hong Kong, 1998, pl. 15.
glancing over one shoulder, striding through a Kangxi reign mark, sold at Christie’s Hong Kong,
mountainous landscape, the interior sides with 30th May 2006, lot 1426, and the other, with an $ 15,000-25,000
‘Buddhist Emblems’ reserved in cartouches on apocryphal Chenghua mark was sold in these ૶ੰဢ ʞ੹ᘅ᜝ྡݹ
alternating diaper grounds, the exterior freely rooms, 13th September 2016, lot 246. A Kangxi- ɽ૶ੰဢϋႡ‘ಛ
painted with a continuous landscape with a lone marked famille-verte-decorated washer of the
scholar aboard a " shing boat, a small hut nestled same form, also from the J.M. Hu Collection, but
among hills, and a ! ock of birds ! ying over distant decorated with a carp emerging from waves was
mountain peaks, the base partially unglazed with sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 28th November
a central recessed circle glazed white and the six- 2005, lot 1374. A variant to the form, a lobed
character mark in underglaze blue famille-verte green-ground example, from the
Diameter 5¾ in., 14.6 cm E. T. Chow Collection, decorated with a dragon
and carp emerging from waves, was sold in our

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