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A CARVED AND MOULDED YELLOW-GLAZED BRUSHPOT, 清十九世紀 黃釉山水高士圖筆筒
BITONG
19TH CENTURY 「僊源陳國治作」楷書款
The exterior is carved with scholars and pavilions in a mountainous river
landscape strewn with gnarled pine trees. The interior, exterior and base are
covered with a warm yellow glaze. The base is incised with a six-character 來源:
maker's mark reading Xian Yuan Chen Guo Zhi Zuo, 'made by Chen Guozhi of 英國私人珍藏, 法國私人舊藏, 大部分於1960年代及1970
Xian Yuan'.
6½ in. (16.5 cm.) wide 年代在巴黎所購,家傳至今
£8,000-12,000 US$11,000-16,000
€9,300-14,000
PROVENANCE:
Private English Collection, formerly in a private collection in France, most
of which was purchased in Paris during the 1960s and 1970s, and thence by
descent to the present owner.

Carved pottery is a distinctive new genre which appeared from the Jiaqing
period onwards. These pieces have characteristically fne and fuid carving,
and are mostly covered in yellow or green glazes to imitate bamboo.

Compare a yellow-glazed brushpot carved with bamboo and rocks and with
a Jiaqing seal mark in the National Palace Museum, illustrated in Liu Liangyu,
A Survey of Chinese Ceramics, 5, p.254; and another carved with landscape
(mark)
and fgures and with a Daoguang mark, illustrated in Geng Baochang, Ming
and Qing Porcelain on Inspection, Beijing, 1993, p.306.

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