CHONGZHEN PERIOD (1628-1644)

This brush pot is exceptionally well painted depicting immortals and their attributes in a restrained and scholarly style. Compare to several similar brush pots, all with different figural scenes, illustrated in R. S. Kilburn, Transitional Wares and Their Forerunners, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1981, pl. 84; in Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century, China Institute Gallery, New York, 1995, no. 34; and in Harry M. Garner, Oriental Blue and White, London, 1954, no. 60A.