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A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT RETICULATED 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' BRUSHPOT, BITONG Kangxi image 1
A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT RETICULATED 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' BRUSHPOT, BITONG Kangxi image 2
A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT RETICULATED 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' BRUSHPOT, BITONG Kangxi image 3
The John E. Bodie OBE (1930-2023) Collection of Chinese Art
大英帝國官佐勳章獲勳人John E. Bodie(1930-2023)中國藝術品收藏
Lot 24

A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT RETICULATED 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' BRUSHPOT, BITONG
Kangxi

16 May 2024, 10:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £7,040 inc. premium

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A FAMILLE VERTE BISCUIT RETICULATED 'THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER' BRUSHPOT, BITONG

Kangxi
Exquisitely moulded in the form of a bamboo grove with gaps between each stem, issuing bamboo leaves and applied with gnarled branches of flowering prunus and pine, glazed yellow, green, brown and transparent glazes save the base revealing the biscuit body and an impressed chrysanthemum design. 12cm (4 3/4 in) high.

Footnotes

清康熙 素三彩歲寒三友筆筒

Provenance: Ionides Collection, by repute
William Clayton Ltd., London, 19 January 1967 (valuation for insurance)
John E. Bodie OBE (1930-2023), London, collection no.69

Provenance: Ionides舊藏,據傳
倫敦古董商William Clayton Ltd.,1967年1月19日(保險評估)
大英帝國官佐勳章獲勳人John E. Bodie(1930-2023),倫敦,藏品編號69

A related brushpot is illustrated by J.P.Stamen, C.Volk, and Ni Yibin, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Boston, 2017, p.108, later sold at Sotheby's New York, 20 March 2018, lot 352.

See also a pair of related turquoise-glazed bamboo-stem brushpots mounted as baskets with ormolu handles and stands, Kangxi, illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.2, London, 2016, nos.1438-1439. Another related pair of turquoise-glazed bamboo-stem brushpots, Kangxi, is illustrated by R.Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol.2, n.p, 1996, no.262.

See a related sancai-glazed openwork 'Three Friends of Winter' brushpot, Kangxi, which was sold at Bonhams London, 2 November 2023, lot 28.

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