A PAIR OF OCHRE-GLAZED MOLDED BRUSHPOTS

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A PAIR OF OCHRE-GLAZED MOLDED BRUSHPOTS
DAOGUANG MOLDED FOUR-CHARACTER SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Made in imitation of bamboo, each thick, cylindrical vessel with shallow foot ring, superbly molded and carved on the exterior with a continuous mountain landscape, each slightly varied and depicting figures plowing, fishing, carrying baskets, conversing and catching water birds, all within a dense rocky backdrop studded with clusters of trees, including pine, willow and pawlonia, and small pavilions nestled in the hills, the details finely incised under a glaze of yellowish-brown tone thinning at the rim and interior (minor nicks, interior of one with re-painting)
6½in. (16.6cm.) diam. (2)

Lot Essay

Compare the similarly molded and glazed brushpot with an incised Daoguang four-character mark illustrated by Geng Baocheng, Ming Qing Ciqi Jianding (Study of Ming and Qing Porcelain), Hong Kong, 1993, p. 306, pl. 517. Another brushpot imitating bamboo, with an impressed Daoguang cyclical six-character mark corresponding to 1848, is in the Baur Collection, illustrated by John Ayers in the Catalogue, vol. IV, Geneva, 1974, no. A662. And another example, with Guangxu mark, was sold in these rooms, December 2, 1993, lot 318