A GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE GLAZED BRUSHPOT

THE PROPERTY OF A FAR EASTERN GENTLEMAN

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A GILT-DECORATED POWDER-BLUE GLAZED BRUSHPOT
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK WITHIN DOUBLE-CIRCLES AND OF THE PERIOD (1662-1722)

The cylindrical brushpot with gently waisted sides, finely gilt-decorated with a landscape scene depicting a sampan sailing near an embankment, connected by a narrow bridge to a promontary in the near distance detailed with dwellings beside tall trees, all within a double-square border, the reverse decorated with text bearing the title, Zhengqi Ge, 'An ode to Uprightness', ending with a Xinmao cyclical date corresponding to 1711, followed by the signature, Chicheng yichi lang, the glaze of lustrous power-blue with darker blue speckles (star crack to base)
6 1/2 in. (16 cm.) high

Lot Essay

A similar brushpot decorated with the same landscape scene and inscribed with the same poem is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Shanghai, 1998, pp. 201-2, no. 201. The Zhengqi Ge, 'An ode to Uprightness', was originally composed by Wen Tianxiang (1235-1282), an official of the Southern Song period.

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