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AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE ‘THREE 清雍正 青花三友報喜筆筒
FRIENDS AND MAGPIES’ BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY, YONGZHENG PERIOD 來源：
法國私人收藏
the cylindrical body boldly painted to the exterior with a J.J. Lally & Co.，紐約
continuous scene of magpies amongst the ‘Three Friends
of Winter’, depicting a magpie in flight above seven others 此筆筒描繪喜鵲閒憩松枝之景，藝匠巧將圓形器物表面化
perched on a pine tree with an arched knotted bough and side 作橫軸於其上作畫，轉動筆筒，如展開畫卷，甚為精緻。
branches bearing luxuriant needles, with two further magpies 此類主題承中國水墨及花鳥彩繪之風，自十五世紀初御窰
standing on pierced rockwork and another two on the ground 多有燒製，雍正年間尤為盛行。
pecking grains, all set in a garden landscape issuing long
leafy bamboo and a gnarled tree issuing prunus blossoms, 一相類作例，售於紐約蘇富比1989年12月6日，編號196
the glazed concave base with an unglazed ring around the ，後於1991年11月27日紐約佳士得售出，編號377。尚
countersunken centre 有一落雍正年款類例，以釉裏紅繪喜上眉梢圖，北京故
14 cm, 5½ in. 宮博物院藏，載於《清代御窰瓷器》，卷1（下），北
京，2005年，圖版61。
PROVENANCE

A French private collection.
J.J. Lally & Co., New York.

HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,700-64,500

This brushpot is notable for its delicate rendering of magpies
perched on pine brunches that unravels like a scroll painting.
This motif, which was popular during the Yongzheng Emperor’s
reign, was inspired by Chinese ink and colour paintings of the
bird-and-flower genre that had provided inspiration to the
potters at the imperial kilns since at least the early fifteenth
century. The round shape of the brushpot provided a most
suitable format for such depictions, as the surface of the
vessel could be treated like a horizontal scroll.

Compare a brushpot painted with a similar motif sold in our
New York rooms, 6th December 1989, lot 196, and again at
Christie’s New York, 27th November 1991, lot 377. See also a
Yongzheng mark and period brushpot painted in copper red
with magpies on flowering prunus branches, in the Palace
Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Qingdai yuyao ciqi [Qing
porcelains from the imperial kilns preserved in the Palace
Museum], vol. I, pt. 2, Beijing, 2005, pl. 61.

98 SOTHEBY’S 蘇富比