A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE BITONG  KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) 康熙五彩...

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£20,000

A SMALL FAMILLE VERTE BITONG 
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
康熙五彩仕女圖筆筒
painted with three panels, with two elegant ladies in a fenced garden by a table observing a small boy – nearby on the grass are two wine jars. The reverse with a fan-shaped vignette containing a mountainous river landscape scene with a viewing pavilion and fishing boat beneath the yellow sun – all above a rectangular shaped vignette with a scholar seated in a fenced garden. With a wide unglazed biscuit band encircling a recessed glazed circle.
14.3 cm high

PROVENANCE: Acquired from Christie’s New York, “ Chinese Export Porcelain”, 21 January 2009, Lot 41. 

RELATED EXAMPLES: For a similar example, but with only one panel to the reverse, see “Chinese Art”, Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 1 December 2017, Lot 329.

A panelled bitong painted with a scholar and attendant pointing to the moon in a fenced landscape is illustrated by Von Walter Bondy in “Kang-His”, No 126.

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Perfect – with the exception of some surface wear and light scratching.