QIANLONG SIX-CHARACTER SEAL MARK IN IRON RED AND OF THE PERIOD (1736-1795)

The use of grisaille enamel on a white porcelain brush pot creates a visual contrast similar to the effect of unfolding a Chinese handscroll, enabling the viewer to travel through the changing scenes of the horizontal landscape. Such technical achievement first originated in the Yongzheng period, see for example, a grisaille enamelled circular brushpot formerly in the J.M. Hu Collection and now in the Shanghai Museum, illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr and Mrs J.M. Hu, Shanghai, 1989, no. 50.