Antique Chinese Qing Biscuit Porcelain Scholar's Brush Pot Bitong Gold Fish 1850 Recently Added This wonderful Italian Renaissance period

This wonderful Italian Renaissance period cabinet is around 400 years old and is ready to grace your home

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The same size bronze sold at Sotheby's New York on January 29th 2010

The borders and the base of the box are inlaid with elliptical and floral bone inlaid devices

silversmith Nikolai Lakovlev Antipov & assayer Anotoly Apollonovish Artsybashev

Antique Chinese Qing Biscuit Porcelain Scholar's Brush Pot Bitong Gold Fish 1850 Recently Added This wonderful Italian Renaissance periodA rare antique 19th century Chinese Qing Dynasty, Daoguang period porcelain bitong or scholar's brushpot, by Wang Bingrong (1820 1875) , circa 1850. This very beautiful brushpot of cylindrical form, having an exterior carved in relief with six gold fish swimming amongst water weeds, their eyes with black glaze. The text above reads; "The Pleasures of Fishes" (Yu Le Tu), the design is a classic Chinese art motif, often associated with with themes of