A SMALL CINNABAR LACQUER BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, JIAQING PERIOD

of cylindrical form, well carved in relief with a continuous lakeside landscape scene depicting a scholar in a boat tucked behind a large boulder, set amid rocky outcrops and pine, paulownia and swaying bamboo trees beside a calm rippling lake, on the shore another figure carrying two stacks of hay rests and watches on, the interior and base lacquered black