Lot Essay
For a brushpot with figures and pine tree see Ho-Am mi sool kwan myung poom do rok/Masterpieces of the Ho-Am Art Museum (Seoul: Samsung Art and Culture Foundation, 1982), pl. 115.
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CHOSON PERIOD (18TH CENTURY)
Details
A Blue and White Porcelain Brush Holder
Choson Period (18th Century)
Cylindrical, with inset foot and inward-slanted mouth, and incised above the foot and below the rim with pairs of parallel lines to define the painted frieze below, the panel rendered in carefully-drawn lines and delicate washes of pale underglaze-cobalt with a scholar under a vine-entwined pine, the figure seated and leaning against a rock, resting the left hand on the raised left knee, a small rectangular writing table balanced on a shorter rock in front, the opposite side of the brush holder painted with four swimming ducks and the sun setting over distant mountains, placed just below the incised top lines, the wide bay separating the ducks and landscape suggested by white space between them; the vessel also covered by a transparent glaze of blue hue and even gloss, foot rim and base unglazed
5½in. (13.9cm.) high; 53/8in. (13.1cm.) diameter
Choson Period (18th Century)
Cylindrical, with inset foot and inward-slanted mouth, and incised above the foot and below the rim with pairs of parallel lines to define the painted frieze below, the panel rendered in carefully-drawn lines and delicate washes of pale underglaze-cobalt with a scholar under a vine-entwined pine, the figure seated and leaning against a rock, resting the left hand on the raised left knee, a small rectangular writing table balanced on a shorter rock in front, the opposite side of the brush holder painted with four swimming ducks and the sun setting over distant mountains, placed just below the incised top lines, the wide bay separating the ducks and landscape suggested by white space between them; the vessel also covered by a transparent glaze of blue hue and even gloss, foot rim and base unglazed
5½in. (13.9cm.) high; 53/8in. (13.1cm.) diameter