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A MOLDED AND CARVED GOURD PROVENANCE
BRUSH POT
Brush pot: Christie’s New York, 16
The brush pot is molded into six vertical September 1998, lot 115.
panels and fnely decorated in relief with Nicholas Grindley, London, 1998.
a horse shown rolling on its back with
its legs kicking and mane and tail fying, Zhiyuan was the sobriquet of Chao Mingsheng
and an inscription, a signature, Zhiyuan, (1611-1680), a Ming dynasty yimin (‘leftover
followed by a Xing you heng tang mark. subject’) scholar based in Jiaxing who lived in
The interior and base are lacquered in seclusion. He was known for molding gourds
black. Together with a gourd brush and grown from his own garden into diferent
cover decorated with an inscription archaistic vessel shapes.
describing the joy of living in seclusion
incised in archaistic bronze script style, The hallmark, Xing you heng tang, may be
followed by a signature, Li Huasheng, and translated, ‘made for the hall of constancy’, which
a seal mark, ding. was the residence of Zhai Quan, a grandson of
the emperor Qianlong, and a famous collector of
Brush pot: 4Ω in. (11.4 cm.) high; brush the Daoguang period.
and cover: 9º in. (23.4 cm.) long, goat hair The inscription on the brush was taken from a
poem written by Zhong Changtong (AD 179-219),
bristle (2) a scholar and oficial of the Eastern Han dynasty.
The poem was recorded in Hou Han Shu (The
$4,000-6,000 Book of Later Han).
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