A CARVED IVORY 'LANDSCAPE' BRUSH POT, China, Kangxi period, cyclically dated to 1674. Delicately carved with a continuous landscape scene including various trees, pagodas, and towering mountains fading into the distance, with two small scholarly figures crossing a river. With inscription 'die cui tu' (Overlapping shades of green). - Property from an Austrian private collection, acquired in 2014 - Cf. to a rare Ming dynasty ivory brush pot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, decorated with an incised design of the Three Friends of Winter, illustrated in Zhongguo meishu quanji, Gongyi meishu bian 11 zhu, mu, ya, jiao, qi, Beijing, 1987, p. 78, no. 90. - Very slightly chipped, very short age crack