Kangxi period (1662-1722)
The brushpot is of slightly waisted cylindtical shape, painted on one side with a large panel depicting a magpie in flight above a large blossoming prunus tree and bamboo. The other side shows ribboned auspicious objects, such as a lute, a flowering chrysanthemum stem, a Buddhist wheel, a conch shell, books, and two large archaic vases hal conceiled at either side of the screen
Height 13.5 cm