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Brushpot in situ in the 1980s

PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ENGLISH COLLECTION
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AN INSCRIBED UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND COPPER RED- PROVENANCE:
DECORATED BRUSHPOT Acquired by the vendor’s great, great grandfather in China at the turn of the
KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND 20th century, thence by descent within the family.
POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD The text Sheng zhu de xian chen song was authored by the Western Han poet
The exterior of the brushpot is intricately inscribed in blue with the text Sheng Wang Bao (c. 84-53 BCE) for the Han Emperor Xuan (74-49 BCE), in praise
zhu de xian chen song, 'The Divine Emperor Obtains Worthy Oficials', ending of the Emperor’s obtainment of able ministers. Compare the present lot to
with a red seal mark reading xi chao chuan gu, which may be translated as a brushpot with the same inscription which was sold at Sotheby’s Hong
'passing on antiquity from this glorious reign'. The base bears a six-character Kong, 28 November 1978, lot 269, then later included in Exhibition of Ancient
reign mark to the recessed centre. Chinese Ceramics at the Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong,
7º in. (18.5 cm.) diam.
and illustrated in the Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1981, no. 112. Another similar
£20,000-40,000 US$25,000-49,000 brushpot was sold at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 8 November 1982, lot 170; then
€23,000-45,000 again at Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 3 October 2018, lot 141.

清康熙或更晚 青花釉裡紅「聖主得賢臣頌」筆筒
《大清康熙年製》款「熙朝傳古」印
來源:
英國私人珍藏, 由藏家曾曾祖父於十九世紀末至二十世紀初期間所購

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