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106 The painting on the present lot is inspired by landscape painting
A blue and white cylindrical brushpot, bitong enjoyed gradually as a scroll is unrolled, similar to the rotating of a
Circa 1650 brushpot to appreciate the full scene. The theme of a lonely scholar
Heavily potted, the outside finely painted with a tiny figure of a in a remote and empty landscape reflects the Daoist preference for
scholar leaning on a staff and dwarfed by the high rocks and willow a withdrawal from the pressures of officialdom, which was a popular
surrounding him, a few fishermen plying the broad river while pines and attitude amidst the chaos of the collapse of the Ming dynasty. For
peaked mountains fill the distance under a full moon. related landscape brushpots, see a sparsely depicted landscape from
20cm (7 7/8in) high the Hatcher Cargo and dated 1643, illustrated by J.B.Curtis, Chinese
Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholar’s Motifs
£10,000 - 15,000 and Narratives, New York, 1995, no.7; and another example illustrated
HK$130,000 - 190,000 by S.Little, Chinese Ceramics of the Transitional Period: 1620-1683,
CNY99,000 - 150,000 New York, 1983, no.18.

約1650年 青花山水人物圖筆筒 Another with landscape and poetry dated to the Kangxi period and in
the Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated Qing Shunzhi Kangxi Chao
Provenance 來源: S.Marchant and Son Ltd., London (label) Qinghua Ci, Beijing, 2005, no.214. Compare also two blue and white
Roy Davids Collection, no.47, acquired on 10 May 2006 brushpots of similar size to the present lot but with figural scenes and
dated Chongzhen, sold in these rooms, 16 May 2013, lots 29 and 30.

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