A 'faux-bois' brush pot/flower pot, Qing dynasty.
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Tall, decorated in relief with bamboo, two central panels decorated in enamel with pug dogs standing in a garden beneath pine trees and cherry blossom, further bands of faux bois decoration in iron red. Two holes in the base for water drainage. Height 21 cm. Diameter 23 cm.
Wear, fritting, crack to base.
Provenance
Property of a private Finnish Collection.
The collection was formed between 1980-2020, the collector has had an interest in China and Chinese Works of Art since childhood, growing up in Beijing. He returned to China in grownup years for work, he came to live in China altogether more than 40 years. His love of China, and Chinese works of art is mirrored in the collection and being an academic collector, he never got tired of learning more about the subject by studying literature, attending lectures, visiting museums, auction houses and befriending curators from Peking, Hong Kong, London, Paris, and Stockholm. The collection consists of both Chinese ceramics and textiles, This being part 1.