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七 7. A Chinese porcelain blue and white cylindrical brushpot, bitong, painted with two hunters, one dismounted from his horse and

loosening his bow, the other still mounted while both horses graze in a continuous landscape amongst ‘v’-shaped grass and birds in
青 flight, between anhua bands of flowers and foliage, the flat base unglazed revealing the white biscuit body.
花 5 1/16 inches, 12.9 cm high.
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獵 Transitional, Chongzhen, circa 1640.

圖 • Included by Marchant in their exhibition of Chinese Blue and White, Wan Li to K’ang Hsi, 1980, no.17.
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筒 • Two other small cylindrical brushpots with figural scenes between anhua bands, in the Shanghai Museum are illustrated by
Antony White, Chen Xiejun and Wang Qingzheng in Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen Porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and

明 the Butler Collections, nos. 19/20, pp. 102-105.

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