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A VERY RARE IMPERIALLY This unusual brushpot represents the Qianlong 㶭Ḧ昮ġġġ䰱⼑剙⋱⚾娑㔯暁⊅⼊
INSCRIBED DOUBLE LOZENGE- emperor’s personal taste, which gravitated 䫮䫺
FORM FAMILLE-ROSE BRUSHPOT towards porcelain designs that were artistically
complex, and revealed his appreciation for ˪⣏㶭Ḧ昮⸜墥˫㫦
QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND PERIOD
scholarship as expressed in his writings and
娑㔯烉
poems.
Þ nely potted with ribbed edges framing
each panel of the double-lozenge form, the A smaller famille-rose brushpot of this form, 䳈厗䌐㭧佌剛⼴ġ䬯塷⍇啷叔⋱㗍ġ
four longer sides vibrantly enameled with painted with panels enclosing court ladies 慵攨暋㈲剛⽫䵘ġ䌐曚ᶨ㝅㶙昊㜙
chrysanthemum, peonies, morning glory, pinks and attendants engaged in leisurely pursuits, 忆䚉桐㳩怬冒【ġ塓Ṣ⻟╂㗗剙⤜ġ
and bamboo growing from rockwork with two as well as ß owers amidst rockwork, was sold 卓俥Ἓ渿Ṣ攻㦪ġ㱛䓼䙰䙰㚨㚱ね
butterß ies in ß ight, the narrow faceted sides at Christie’s London, 11th May 2010, lot 268.
each with a two column inscription in zhuanshu, Brushpots of such distinctive auspicious shape ⌘㔯烉Ḧġ昮
kaishu, xingshu and lishu script, each bearing were also produced in various palettes; such as
two seals reading qian and long, all framed one covered in a ‘robin’s egg’ glaze, illustrated Ը๕
within iron-red and gilt borders, the interior in Qing Zhenzong, Qingdai ciqi shangjian ⎚吪剔ɀ䑲偗ᶱᶾ炷1978⸜必炸㓞啷
and base with a turquoise enamel, save for the [Appreciation of Qing Dynasty Porcelain], Hong
six-character seal mark inscribed in underglaze Kong, 1994, pl. 179; and an underglaze-red
blue beneath a clear glaze example painted with a landscape scene, in the
Width 5¼ in., 13.5 cm Guangdong Provincial Museum, Guangzhou,
illustrated in Guangdongsheng bowuguan cang
PROVENANCE
taoci xuan [The Collection of Ceramics of the
Collection of Stephen Junkunc, III (d. 1978). Guangdong Provincial Museum], Beijing, 1992,
pl. 182.
$ 60,000-80,000

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