A FAMILLE-VERTE 'MAGPIE' BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD |

of cylindrical form, brightly enameled with two rectangular panels each enclosing a poem and a 'bird and flower' painting featuring a magpie, one perched on a prunus branch, the other mid-flight by a pond grasping a lotus pod between its feet, one poem signed Zhu Yin and the other signed Yun An, all reserved against a chevron emerald-green ground between dentil, keyfret and abstract kuilong borders

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 17th November 1982.
Collection of Florence (1920-2018) and Herbert (1917-2016) Irving, no. 721.

There is a vertical hairline crack apprx. 0.3 cm long to the inner rim. There is overpainting to one small section around the foot and apprx. 1/4 of the rim, likely to conceal fritting. Overall with wear, light scratches and minor scattered firing imperfections.
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