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A RARE FAMILLE-VERTE Kangxi period dated examples of brushpots World’s Great Collections, Vol. 8, Musee Guimet,
‘LANDSCAPE’ BRUSHPOT of this large size and bearing inscriptions Tokyo, 1976, pl. 53; another of smaller size also
KANGXI PERIOD, DATED RENCHEN are exceptionally rare. As with other related inscribed and with bird and flower decoration
YEAR, CORRESPONDING TO 1712 pieces of this rarefied group, the inscription sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 29th-30th
on the brushpot ends with a seal mark not November 2018, lot 324. Another, of smaller
of slightly waisted cylindrical form, the exterior of the poet but of a workshop, Mu Shi Ju. size, similarly bird and flower decorated,
enameled to one side with a rectangular This mark appears on other porcelains of inscribed and bearing a Mu Shi Ju seal mark,
panel enclosing a scene depicting the poet superlative quality and belongs to a very select from the Jie Rui Tang Collection sold in these
Su Shi seated at a table enjoying wine under group thought to be associated with one or rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 310.
the canopy of a sampan, an oarsman at the more small private workshops in Jingdezhen, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel Proust
stern guiding the boat by towering boulders operating during the late Ming and early Qing (1871-1922) was a renowned French novelist,
and towards the famed rocky prominence, dynasty. author of the famous seven-volume novel À la
its sheer verticality punctuated by a crooked A very similar famille-verte brushpot, also recherche du temps perdu, written between
pine tree jutting out from the cliff, the reverse dated to 1712 and from the collection of 1913 and 1927, based on Proust’s personal
inscribed with a seven line poetic inscription Marcel Proust, was exhibited in Kangxi Famille life told from a psychological and allegorical
from Su Shi’s Latter Ode to the Red Cliff, signed Verte, Marchant, London, 2017, cat. no. 31. point of view. The novel includes numerous
Xiu Yuan, and with a Mu Shi Ju seal mark, See also another similar example, dated to references to Japanese and Chinese works
the partially unglazed based centered with a 1719, included by Marchant in Qing Porcelain, of art. These deliberate references reflect the
recessed medallion Marchant, London, 2011, cat. no. 5. There author’s admiration for Asian art, particularly
Diameter 7¼ in., 18.4 cm
is a Kangxi mark and period blue and white its reverence for the natural world which he
brushpot of the same subject matter in the effectively contrasts with the more humanistic
PROVENANCE
Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Chen approach of European art.
Collection of Marcel Proust (1871–1922). Runmin, Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua
ci [Qing blue and white porcelain from the
$ 40,000-60,000 Shunzhi and Kangxi periods], Beijing, 2005, pl.
206. 清康熙壬辰年（1712年）
五彩開光赤壁夜遊圖詩文筆筒
Related brushpots with Mu Shi Ju marks include
a large bird and flower decorated famille-verte 來源
brushpot, dated to 1709, in the Musée Guimet,
Paris, illustrated in Oriental Ceramics: The Marcel Proust (1871-1922) 收藏

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