M4593
£48,000
Description
A Chinese porcelain famille verte, wucai brush pot painted with two panels with a pair of elegant standing ladies, each looking down at two chickens beside a table, stools, a pierced rockwork stand, holding a censer and cup and two vessels, all in a fenced scene with a red sun and insects in flight, the reverse with a fishing boat moored by a rocky promontory in a mountainous river landscape scene beside a viewing pavilion, beneath a moon, the base unglazed with recessed base centre.
Kangxi 1662-1722.
5 3/8 inches, 13.7 cm cm high.
Fitted wood box and wood stand.
Condition
Excellent.
Provenance & Additional Information
- Formerly in the personal collection of T.Y. Chao (1912-1999), thence by descent in the family.
- From the estate of Chao Sze Kwong George.
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