Four ivory brushpots, bitong17th/18th century |Comprising three brush pots decorated with scholars and their attendants, variously in fenced gardens surrounded by billowing clouds, playing the flute in a pine forest by the lakeside, and strolling in a lingzhi-strewn pine forest, the latter with traces of pigment; the fourth finely carved with sprays of lingzhi, magnolia and peonies issuing from craggy rocks, three with wood stands.|The tallest: 14.5cm (5 3/4 in) high (7).|Provenance|