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A green-glazed relief-carved
cylindrical brushpot, bitong
Xu Ji Shun Zhi seal mark (Made by Xu Ji Shun),
19th Century
The exterior carved with a vivid scene of a general
on horseback with a bow accompanied by a
servant on another horse with a flying pennant
while another servant runs behind holding a trident,
the figures in pursuit of a fleeing hare wounded by
an arrow, all within a rocky landscape, the brushpot
glazed covered with a bright green glaze.
14cm (5½in) high
£4,000 - 7,000
HK$50,000 - 87,000
CNY39,000 - 69,000
十九世紀 綠釉浮雕人物故事圖筆筒 「徐記順製」
篆書刻款
A similar brushpot with the same mark was sold at
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 4 April 2012, lot 180.
Provenance: an English private collection
來源：英國私人收藏

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An ochre-glazed brushpot
Wang Bingrong zuo seal mark (Made by Wang
Bingrong), 19th century
The cylindrical brushpot finely applied with a
continuous scene of a horse nuzzling its mate
bending its head down to crop the grass, all within
a rocky landscape of wutong trees and willow
beside a low bridge over a stream, all covered with
a soft ochre glaze.
13.6cm (5 3/8in) high
£8,000 - 12,000
HK$100,000 - 150,000
CNY79,000 - 120,000
十九世紀 黃釉浮雕雙駿圖筆筒 「王炳榮作」篆書
刻款
Provenance: a Swiss private collection
來源：瑞士私人收藏
Compare a similar ochre-glazed ‘twin horses’
brushpot, Wang Bingrong zuo, dated to the
Tongzhi period, illustrated by T.Miller and H.Hui
in Elegance in Relief: Carved Porcelain from
Jingdezhen of the 19th to Early 20th Centuries,
Hong Kong, 2006, pl.11; see also two other
brushpots covered in different glazes, bearing the
same seal mark, dated from the Daoguang period
to the Guangxu period, with related horse carvings,
illustrated ibid., pls.12 and 14. The authors note
that sometimes referred to as shuiyang ma, the
tranquil image of two horses beneath a willow tree,
as in the present lot, represents the innocent vitality
of youth.

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