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二 23. Blue and white brushpot, bitong, painted in a continuous scene between anhua lines with a speckled deer looking up at
十 a monkey leaning on a long pine branch and teasing the deer with a sprig, amongst rockwork, peony, bamboo, birds in
三 flight pursuing an insect above a fenced marbled wall and classic ‘v’-shaped grass, the rim and base unglazed.
21.8cm high.
青 Chongzhen, 1628-1644.
花 • Formerly in a private English collection.
爵 • Brushpots and other Chongzhen vessels solely painted with animals as the central subject, with the absence of
祿
封 figures, are rare. A large example painted with three quails, formerly in the collection of Mr and Mrs Anthony du
侯 Boulay, is included by Michael Butler, Julia B. Curtis and Stephen Little in Shunzhi Porcelain 1644-1661, Treasures
圖 form an Unknown Reign, no. 5, p. 95. The authors also illustrate a slender vase from The Walters Art Museum,
筆 Baltimore, Maryland, painted with a tiger, phoenix bird, dragon and qilin.
筒 • An ovoid jar and cover, painted with a tiger and dragon, the cover with a qilin, was included by Marchant in their
exhibition of Chinese Blue and White - Wan Li to K’ang Hsi, 1980, no. 50, and a slender brushpot painted with a
明 qilin in front of a similar marbled fence, in The Gugong, is included by Chen Run Min in Qing Dynasty Shunzhi and
崇 Kangxi Period, Underglaze Blue Porcelain in The Gugong Museum Collection, Beijing, no. 30, pp. 62/3.
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