M4572

Chinese porcelain dated famille verte brushpot, bitong, painted with a scholar seated in the front of a fishing boat looking up at overhanging rockwork, and seated beside a tiered box with an upright handle and a wine jar, being steered by a fisherman holding the rudder, beneath long branches of overhanging pine, with a mountain range, migrating birds and the moon amongst iron-red clouds, within an underglaze blue double-line rectangular frame with chamfered corners. The reverse with a fifty-six character poem in dedication to the Red Cliff, with the date, renchen year, corresponding to 1712, second month of the summer, Wenyuan Yuan qing fu, signed by Xiuyuan, round seal and square seal, mushi ju.

7 5/8 inches, 19.3 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1712.

Pair of Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai saucer dishes thinly potted with upright rims, painted with four fan-shaped panels of carp and a mandarin fi sh swimming amongst smaller fish and aquatic plants, on a yellow ground with phoenix birds amongst blue peony, leaves and scrolls, encircling a central flowerhead and cash diaper band, all within a border of six butterfly reserves on a dense prunus flowerhead and seed green ground, the underside with a triangular and flowerhead border, the base with flowerhead mark in underglaze-blue within a double ring.

10 3/4 inches, 27.3 cm diameter.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.

Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai vase of rouleau form, painted with two magpies perched on a branch amongst flowering chrysanthemum and tropical leaves, beneath butterflies, dragonflies and other insects, mostly in pairs, beneath a wide band at the shoulder with Buddhist lion reserves, each with a ribbon-tied brocade ball on a geometric ground, beneath a single rib on the neck between bands of jewels, ruyi-head, keyfret, scrolls and lappets, with an upright galleried rim, the foot with a band of lappets, the base glazed white with underglaze blue double ring.

18 3/4 inches, 47.6 cm high.

Kangxi, 1662-1722.