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A FAMILLE VERTE RETICULATED SQUARE BRUSHPOT KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722) Each of the four sides with a circular medallion decorated in the famille verte palette, variously enamelled with ladies at leisure including watching butterflies, resting on a chair, admiring through a mirror, and at play with a young child amidst ornamental rocks, all surrounded by gilt openwork lattice and framed by a border of dense flowers on a ground of leaves and C-scrolls, the edges including the four bracket-feet enamelled in yellow with brown stippling, the broad mouth rim detailed with a ruyi pattern on a turquoise-ground 5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, wood stand, box