A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'BOYS' BRUSHPOT

A CHINESE FAMILLE ROSE 'BOYS' BRUSHPOT, BITONG

REPUBLIC PERIOD

The cylindrical body painted with a scholar sleeping at his desk as five boys practise calligraphy and play blind man's buff, the studio with a window looking out on to crashing waves, with a four character Qianlong mark to the base, 12.4cm.

Provenance: from an English private collection, West Yorkshire, formed in the 1970s and 1980s.