A Chinese blue and white porcelain brushpot, Republic era, early 20th century, the cylindrical brushpot, decorated in the Kangxi manner with a continuous scene of scholars and notable figures and children in a fenced garden within a traditional rockwork, pine and bamboo landscape with scrolling clouds, a faint inscribed scrolling border to the neck and a chevron border to the base. Height 20 cm. Diameter 20.5 cm.