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Lot Essay
The artist of this brush pot, Yang Jichu, is recorded in Chongkan jingxi xianzhi (The Republished Jingxi Gazetteer), compiled by Tang Zhongmian during the Qing dynasty. Yang is noted as being active during the same period as Chen Hanwen, mid 17th-early 18th century. Like Chen Hanwen, Yang Jichu is famous for his work on Yixing wares, especially those, like the current brush pot, which are painted in coloured slips.
It is rare to find a square slip-painted Yixing brush pots as most of the other similar examples are of circular form. Several slip-painted Yixing brush pots dated to the Qianlong period are preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and are illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Purple Sandy Ware, Beijing, 2008, pp. 114-118. Two of them bear the seal of Yang Jichu - one with a dark brown body (no. 115), the other with a beige body (no. 116) similar to the current example.
Compare also to three other brush pots decorated in similar technique with Yang Jichu seals sold at auctions, one of beige body decorated with a landscape scene formerly in the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1246; one of purple body with landscape scene from the collection of Chen Keli (1908-1985), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3374; and another one of purple body decorated with crabs sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lot 3346.
It is rare to find a square slip-painted Yixing brush pots as most of the other similar examples are of circular form. Several slip-painted Yixing brush pots dated to the Qianlong period are preserved in the Palace Museum, Beijing, and are illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum - Purple Sandy Ware, Beijing, 2008, pp. 114-118. Two of them bear the seal of Yang Jichu - one with a dark brown body (no. 115), the other with a beige body (no. 116) similar to the current example.
Compare also to three other brush pots decorated in similar technique with Yang Jichu seals sold at auctions, one of beige body decorated with a landscape scene formerly in the Robert H. Blumenfield Collection, sold at Christie's New York, 22 March 2012, lot 1246; one of purple body with landscape scene from the collection of Chen Keli (1908-1985), sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 1 June 2016, lot 3374; and another one of purple body decorated with crabs sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 30 November 2016, lot 3346.