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The exaggerated curve of the sides of the present lot is particularly
notable, and places this brushpot within a small group of such
strongly-potted wares dating to the early Kangxi period. The ‘wet
dot’ band at the foot and the two-character Qing Wan mark also
suggest an early Kangxi date. See for example a similarly shaped
brushpot from the Shanghai Museum with a Qing Wan mark, also
with ‘wet dot’ marks at the foot and ‘cracked-ice’ at the rim, and with
a similar style of continuous landscape painting on the flaring sides,
illustrated in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the
Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections: Beauty’s Enchantment,
Shanghai, 2005, pp.238-239, no.82
Compare a related but slightly smaller brushpot dated to the early
Kangxi period and also with the Qing Wan mark, sold in these rooms,
10 November 2011, lot 136.

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