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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE, COPPER RED Provenance: The present lot is not just unusual for its
AND CELADON GLAZED BRUSHPOT, Jan van Beers Oriental Art, London, colouring: the potter's ability to successfully
BITONG 3 December 2007 fire underglaze blue, copper red and
Shi dai lian fang mark, Kangxi celadon on this brushpot is an exceptional
Exquisitely decorated around the exterior Published and Illustrated: achievement. The design of the clouds and
with large rocks in celadon green, a small S.Marsh, Brushpots: A Collector's View, tree grain was carved and incised into the
figure in a boat crosses a lake and a flock of Hong Kong, 2020, pp.132-133 body which served both an aesthetic and
geese fly back to the shore in the evening, all technical purpose to prevent the pigments
in strong cobalt-blue, the blossoms on the 來源： from mixing into each other during firing.
trees in copper-red, the wispy clouds incised, 倫敦古董商 Jan van Beers Oriental Art， Copper red was notoriously difficult to control,
the countersunk base partially white-glazed 2007年12月3日 thus the addition of celadon glaze adds to
and inscribed with an six-character mark in the complexity of the firing and the rarity
underglaze blue. 錄著： of vessels decorated in this palette. The
18.8cm (7 1/4in) diam. S.Marsh，《Brushpots: A Collector's View》 auspicious four-character mark, Shi dai lian
，香港，2020年，頁132-133 fang, 'Generation after generation will attain
£20,000 - 30,000 high office' is also rare.
CNY160,000 - 240,000
Related brushpots, inscribed with Kangxi reign
清康熙 青花釉裏三彩山水圖筆筒 marks and of the period, are in the National
青花「世代聯芳」楷書款 Palace Museum, Taipei, illustrated in Porcelain
of the National Palace Museum: Enamelled
Ware of the Qing Dynasty (Book I), Hong
Kong, 1969, pl.1, where the decoration is
referred to as 'underglaze three-colour', p.32.
Compare also with a related blue and white,
copper red and celadon glazed brushpot,
Kangxi, six-character mark and of the period,
but decorated with flowers and butterflies,
illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from
the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong
Kong, 1998, pp.128-129, no.87. See also a
brushpot with related landscape in underglaze
blue and copper-red and celadon glaze,
Kangxi, illustrated in The Complete Collection
of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Small
Refined Articles of the Study, Shanghai, 2009,
p.88, no.58.

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