QIANLONG PERIOD (1736-1795)

The brush pot belongs to a group of ‘pictorial style’ jade carvings which have similar visual effect as paintings. See a Qing dynasty white jade brush pot in the Palace Museum, Beijing, depicting an scholar sitting in a pavilion, illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Jadeware (III), Hong Kong, 1995 , no.167; a Qianlong period spinach-green jade brush pot depicting the seven sages of bamboo grove, also in the Palace Museum Beijing, ibid, no. 170.