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A RARE TURQUOISE-GLAZED HEXAGONAL
BISCUIT BRUSHPOT, BITONG
Kangxi
Elegantly potted with six straight sides rising
from a stepped foot with six bracket-feet,
rising to a flat-lipped mouth rim, covered with
a lustrous turquoise-blue glaze with a 'fish-roe'
crackle, save the base.
14.6cm (5 3/4in) high.

£3,000 - 5,000
CNY24,000 - 41,000
清康熙 綠松石釉六角筆筒

Provenance:
Heliot Fils, Rue de Berlin, Paris (label)
S. Marchant & Son, London, 12 June 1996

Published and Illustrated:
S.Marsh, Brushpots: A Collector's View,
Hong Kong, 2020, pp.192-193.
來源：
Heliot Fils, Rue de Berlin, 巴黎（標簽）
倫敦古董商 S. Marchant & Son，1996年6月12
日
展覽與錄著：
S.Marsh, 《Brushpots: A Collector's View》，
香港，2020年，頁192-193
The present lot has a lustrous turquoise-blue
glaze. Turquoise glazes were occasionally
used during the Tang dynasty on earthenware
tomb figures and by the 12th century the glaze
was used at kilns associated with tile-making;
turquoise glazes can be seen on Jin dynasty
(1115-1234) Cizhou stonewares. While turquoise
glazes were applied to Jingdezhen porcelains
in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, they did not
come to prominence on porcelain until the Qing
dynasty. This low-fired alkaline glaze was made
by mixing saltpetre (potassium nitrate), quartz
and copper powder. The turquoise glaze is highly
fluxed, and is quite runny during firing so it tends
to pool attractively in the various indentations
of the design as it cools. The glaze would be
applied and fired after the porcelain vessel had
had an initial 'biscuit' firing. The base is covered
in a thin clear glaze and shows an imprint of the
fabric on which the pot stood before the feet
were applied.

Turquoise-glazed porcelain vessels continued
from the Kangxi to Yongzheng and Qianlong
reigns. See a turquoise glazed meiping vase,
incised Kangxi six-character mark and of the
period, which was sold at Bonhams London,
12 May 2016, lot 67.

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