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With regards to the date of the present lot, the channelled foot ring
suggests that it was made in the early Kangxi period. The channelled
foot ring is a feature that appeared in the Shunzhi reign. A blue and
white brushpot with channelled foot, cyclically dated to 1667, serves
to demonstrate that by this year, the potters were still producing pieces
with an unglazed channel foot ring. Extant pieces bearing cyclical
dates show that by 1671, fully developed unglazed channel foot rings
were commonly used. This channelled foot ring however, virtually
disappeared by the late Kangxi reign; see T.Canepa and K.Butler,
Leaping the Dragon Gate: The Sir Michael Butler Collection of 17th-
Century Chinese Porcelain, London, 2021, p.374. Therefore, it is very
likely that the present brushpot was made circa 1670's.

Shou characters from the ‘Treasury of Ancient
Characters on Bronze and Stone’, 1670.

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