A BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH POT

CHONGZHEN PERIOD, CIRCA 1640

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A BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH POT
CHONGZHEN PERIOD, CIRCA 1640
The brushpot, of slender cylindrical form, is decorated on the exterior with a scene from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms depicting the general Lu Xun on horseback, enveloped by billowing clouds, meeting with the scholar Huang Chengyan beneath a willow tree, all between finely incised scroll borders. The flat base is unglazed.
6 ½ in. (16.5 cm.) high

Provenance

Ralph M. Chait Galleries, New York, 1989.
Collection of Julia and John Curtis.

Literature

Julia B. Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, New York, 1995, pp. 102-103, no. 34

Exhibited

China Institute Gallery, New York, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars’ Motifs and Narratives, 22 April – 5 August 1995.

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Lot Essay

Lu Xun was a general and politician in the state of Eastern Wu. After the Battle of Xiaoting, he found himself lost in Zhuge Liang’s Stone Sentinel Maze, which was an arrangement of rocks and boulders conjured up by Zhuge Liang based on the concept of the ancient bagua. In the scene on this brush pot Lu Xun is shown meeting the scholar Huang Chengyan, who leads him out of the maze. Huang Chengyan had a daughter, Huang Yueying, who later married Zhuge Liang.

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