19TH CENTURY

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A CARVED AND MOULDED YELLOW-GLAZED BRUSHPOT, BITONG
19TH CENTURY
The exterior is carved with scholars and pavilions in a mountainous river landscape strewn with gnarled pine trees. The interior, exterior and base are covered with a warm yellow glaze. The base is incised with a six-character maker's mark reading Xian Yuan Chen Guo Zhi Zuo, 'made by Chen Guozhi of Xian Yuan'.
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide

Provenance

Private English Collection, formerly in a private collection in France, most of which was purchased in Paris during the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by descent to the present owner.

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Lot Essay

Carved pottery is a distinctive new genre which appeared from the Jiaqing period onwards. These pieces have characteristically fine and fluid carving, and are mostly covered in yellow or green glazes to imitate bamboo.
Compare a yellow-glazed brushpot carved with bamboo and rocks and with a Jiaqing seal mark in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Liu Liangyu, A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, 5, p.254; and another carved with landscape and figures and with a Daoguang mark, illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming and Qing Porcelain on Inspection, Beijing, 1993, p.306.

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