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A MOTHER-OF-PEARL-INLAID This rare brushpot is one of the few known Compare a related brushpot decorated in the
LACQUERED PORCELAIN BRUSHPOT examples of porcelain embellished with black same technique, formerly in the Robert H.
QING DYASTY, KANGXI PERIOD lacquer inlaid with tiny pieces of thin multi- Blumenfield Collection, sold Christie’s New
colored abalone (haliotis) shell to build up York, 25th March 2010, lot 954. Other forms
the straight cylindrical sides finely lacquered detailed designs. Technically challenging, this decorated in the same technique include a
and inlaid with mother-of-pearl to depict a technique was more commonly applied to wood small jar in the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague,
continuous riverscape, with a scholar and and other organic materials. According to Sir illustrated in M. Beurdeley and G. Raindre, Qing
attendant on the shore approaching a outcrop Harry Garner in Chinese Lacquer, London, 1979, Porcelain: Famille Verte, Famille Rose, London,
overlooking a single sampan bobbing in the p. 211, ‘this shell had ideal qualities for pictorial 1987, pl. 67; a rouleau vase illustrated in Denise
still waters, with mountains peaks rising in the decoration, but the small size and fragility of Patry Leidy, Mother-of-Pearl. A Tradition in
distance, the interior and base glazed white the pieces made it difficult to use the incised Asian Lacquer, New York, 2006, pl. 32; a larger
save for a ring encircling the countersunk technique. ... small pieces of check weight shell rouleau vase sold in our Paris rooms, 11th
center are massed together and some advantage June 2019, lot 8; and a baluster vase sold at
Height 4½ in., 11.6 cm taken of the variety of color to give a realistic Christie’s London, 17th June 2003, lot 66.
effect that could never be achieved by incised
designs’. $ 40,000-60,000

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