Small ivory brush pot. Dated 1936 - image-1
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Lot 374 D‡α

Small ivory brush pot. Dated 1936

Auction 1061 - overview Cologne
04.12.2015, 14:00 - Asian Art II - Chinese Paintings, Decorative Arts, Porcelain and Ceramics
Estimate: 500 € - 800 €
Result: 1.736 € (incl. premium)
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Small ivory brush pot. Dated 1936

A small ivory brush pot of cylindrical shape with fine-line incisions of palace ladies on a terrace by a lotus pond and a pavilion in a garden with trees and rocks, some lines rubbed with ink, red and blue pigments. Inscribed with a verse, dated cyclically bingzi (1936) and sealed Xingyuan. An apocryphal four-character mark Qianlong to the base.
Height 9.1 cm

The inscription refers to the first line of the 94th chapter of the "Jinghuayuan" (Flowers in the Mirror), a fictional travel novel by Li Ruzhen, 1827.

民國微雕象牙加彩色鏡花緣圖筆筒 丙子年興源題《乾隆年製》款
來源：出自一對德國夫婦的私人收藏。他們曾在1930至1945年間在中國教授私塾，這些收藏正是那時作為對他們做出貢獻的肯定而贈與的，之后由家族繼承。

Provenance

Former property of a German couple who lived as private tutors in China from 1930 to 1945 and received these objects in recognition of their services, thence by descent