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FOUR IVORY BRUSHPOTS, BITONG
17th/18th century
Comprising three brush pots decorated with scholars and their
attendants, variously in fenced gardens surrounded by billowing
clouds, playing the flute in a pine forest by the lakeside, and strolling in
a lingzhi-strewn pine forest, the latter with traces of pigment; the fourth
finely carved with sprays of lingzhi, magnolia and peonies issuing from
craggy rocks, three with wood stands.
The tallest: 14.5cm (5 3/4 in) high (7).
£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 17,000 HK$15,000 - 20,000
Provenance
A Uruguayan Private Collection.

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