A DEHUA RETICULATED CYLINDRICAL BRUSH POT

17TH CENTURY

Details

A DEHUA RETICULATED CYLINDRICAL BRUSH POT
17TH CENTURY
The sides are pierced with a design of leafy peony scroll bearing three blossoms with incised details, all between thumb-grooved borders at the rim and foot. The interior and exterior are covered with a glaze of milk-white tone.
5 1/8 in. (13 cm.) high

Provenance

Kate Sturges Buckingham (1858–1937) Collection, Chicago, before 1924.
The Art Institute of Chicago, accessioned as the Collection of Lucy Maud Buckingham (1870-1920) in 1924.

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Lot Essay

A similar Dehua brush pot, dated circa 1640, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Blanc de Chine, S. Marchant & Son, London, June 1994, p. 68, no. 105. Another example is illustrated in the memorial exhibition catalogue, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1952, p. 106, no. 420. See, also, the similar brush pot, dated to the Kangxi period, in the collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by Warren E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1944, p. 535, fig. 771.

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