18TH/19TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL REVERSE-DECORATED LACQUERED IVORY BRUSH POT
18TH/19TH CENTURY
Delicately reverse-decorated on a brown lacquer ground with a continuous scene of ladies and their attendants in a garden setting with a lotus pond and pavilion on one side, between decorative borders, wood base
5½ in. (14 cm.) high

Provenance

Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 1998.
The Fayerman Collection, Booncroft, no. KP608.
Michael C. Hughes, LLC, New York, 2007.

Exhibited

Oriental Works of Art, Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 8 - 26 June 1998, no. 100.

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Lot Essay

Another ivory brush pot decorated in the same technique with a landscape scene and dated to the first half of the 18th century is illustrated in Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, London, 1984, p. 154, no. 182, where another of hexagonal shape decorated with bamboo and dated 18th century is also illustrated, no. 183. See, also, the example of lobed hexagonal shape decorated with panels of flowers in the Qing Court collection, dated to mid-Qing dynasty, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Small Refined Articles of the Study, Shanghai, 2009, no. 37, where the lacquer appears to be of brownish color.

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