Live Auction 2648Auspicious Treasures for Scholars and Emperors: Selections from the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection
A RARE AND UNUSUAL SMALL IMPERIAL BRONZE SCROLL-FORM WATER POT
Lot 1259

A RARE AND UNUSUAL SMALL IMPERIAL BRONZE SCROLL-FORM WATER POT

17TH/18TH CENTURY

Closed22 March 2012

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A RARE AND UNUSUAL SMALL IMPERIAL BRONZE SCROLL-FORM WATER POT
17TH/18TH CENTURY
Finely cast in the shape of a partially unrolled scroll, the edge turned back to show the four-character title strip reading, yutang qingwan (Pure Treasure of the Jade Hall or Pure Treasure of Yutang), and draped with a braided cord with clip that continues onto the underside, a large leaf laid on the hollow scroll surrounding the irregular opening
2¾ in. (7 cm.) wide

Gerard Hawthorn Ltd., London, 2001.

Specialist note

A very similar water pot in the Qing court collection (Fig. 1) is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Small Refined Articles of the Study, Shanghai, 2009, pp. 6-7, where it is shown, p. 6, to have been one of the small articles stored in a fitted box for writing materials.