KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

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A FINELY CARVED CELADON-GLAZED BRUSH POT
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)
Of cylindrical form, the brush pot is well carved with two sinuous chilong striding amongst lingzhi sprigs and scrolling foliage beneath a chevron border. The recessed base is painted with an artemesia leaf in underglaze blue.
6 in. (14.9 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

Provenance

John Sparks Ltd. (sticker)
Sold at Sotheby's London, 8 November 2006, lot 68

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Lot Essay

A brush pot from the H.M. Knight Collection with similar carving but with a keyfret band around the mouth rim was included in the Exhibition Oosterse Schatten, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1954, no. 311. Compare, also, to the example from the Collection of the British Rail Pension Fund, exhibited at the Dorchester International Ceramics Fair, London, June 1986, and later sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 16 May 1989, lot 51.

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