A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT EROTIC GROUP BRUSHWASHER

Property from the Collection of THE LATE MR. AND MRS. EDWARD G. MEYER

A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT EROTIC GROUP BRUSHWASHER

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A RARE GLAZED BISCUIT EROTIC GROUP BRUSHWASHER
KANGXI

Well modeled with a man making amorous advances to a woman while an attendant spies on them from his kneeling position beside a scholar's table set with a brushpot and a water coupe and hung with a cloth frontal, a yokeback armchair painted on the screen behind, the reverse with a deep receptacle with three apertures in the top, all in green, amber and aubergine glaze applied directly to the biscuit, small rim chip
4½in. (11.4cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare another unusual Kangxi famille verte biscuit group of a domestic scene, formerly in the J.P. Morgan Collection, depicting two ladies playing ge included in the exhibition, Chinese Ceramic Sculpture, The Chinese Porcelain Company, April 25 - May 19, 1990, Catalogue no. 34, where the authors note that 'this biscuit group is extremely rare and is the only one recorded of its type'