A GOOD CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE 'SCHOLAR' BRUSHPOT, BITONG

KANGXI 1662-1722

The cylindrical body painted in inky cobalt-blue with a seated scholar contemplating in a continuous rocky landscape with bamboo and pine shrubs, his attendants preparing tea, all between a narrow chevron and a freestyle dotted borders, 13.8cm.

Provenance: from the collection of Sir Ronald Charles Lindsay GCB, KCMG, CVO, PC,1877-1945, and thence by descent. Sir Ronald Lindsay was a British civil servant and diplomat. He was the British Ambassador to Turkey from 1925-26 and to Germany from 1926-28; from 1928-30, he was Permanent Undersecretary for Foreign Affairs and from 1930-39 the British Ambassador to the United States of America.