A FAMILLE VERTE 'BUDDHIST LION' SQUARE STAND Kangxi The top with indented corners decorated with a Buddhist lion playing with a beribboned ball within diaper-pattern borders and floral roundels, set atop a waisted section above four cabriole feet and shaped aprons decorated with a prunus and cracked-ice pattern. 19.5cm (7 3/4in) wide. Footnotes: 清康熙 素三彩獅子戲球方架 Provenance: Peter Kemp Antiques, London (collector's notes). Published and Illustrated: M. White, Living at the Whites' House: Ceramics from the Mary and Peter White collection, vol.4, n.p., 2023, p.206. The present lot was likely intended for placement on a scholar's desk, used to hold brushes, ink-cakes, brushwashers, and related implements, thereby preventing ink from soiling the desk surface. See a related famille verte 'fisherman' rectangular stand, Kangxi, in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Miscellaneous Enamelled Porcelains Plain Tricoloured Porcelains (故宮博物院藏文物珍品大系：雜色釉·素三彩), Shanghai, 2009, p.257, no.206. See also a related famille verte rectangular stand, early 18th century, illustrated by C.J.A Jorg, Chinese Ceramics in the Collection of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: The Ming and Qing Dynasties, Amsterdam, 1997, p.187, no.209. This lot is subject to the following lot symbols: 'Bonhams' owns the 'Lot' either wholly or partially or may otherwise have an economic interest. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing