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New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 795

A FAMILLE -VERTE 'THREE STAR GODS' BRUSHPOT, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

A FAMILLE-VERTE 'THREE STAR GODS' BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 五彩開光福祿魁三星圖筆筒

the cylindrical form finely enameled on the exterior with three rectangular panels each enclosing a mythical deity, one with Fuxing
in bright robes clutching a scroll and gazing up into the night sky towards a fluttering bat, another with Luxing, extravagantly
attired proffering a hu tablet in a moonlit balustraded-garden setting, and the third with Kuixing dynamically poised on one leg
atop the head of a leaping dragon-carp amid rolling waves, a brush in one hand and an ingot in the other, all against a rich pale-
green, black-speckled ground with a colorful array of fruiting boughs, floral sprigs and leafy stems, the interior glazed white, the
base with a circular recess, partially glazed

Height 5½ in., 14.2 cm

Provenance
Collection of Dr. Max Wasserman.

來源
Max Wasserman 醫生收藏

Catalogue Note
Compare a related famille-verte brushpot, from the Sir Percival David Collection in the British Museum, London, depicting the
Three Star Gods inspecting a scroll painting illustrated in Rosemary Scott, Illustrated Catalogue of Qing Enamelled Ware in the

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