A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE CYLINDRICAL BRUSHPOT, BITONG

YONGZHENG OR LATER

Painted to the exterior with a beauty holding a small flower in her left hand, with lotus blooms contained in a vase on a table behind her, she gazes at two boys standing by a large pile of books, one child holds a lotus leaf and a halberd, the other clutches a sceptre, with rockwork to the reverse, together with an openwork wood stand, 12.5cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.