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青 10. A Chinese porcelain blue and white brushpot, bitong, painted with Xie An with his nephew playing weiqi at a large table with
花
人 three lady attendants while a warrior arrives with a document during the battle of the Fei River, all in a continuous scene with an
物 equestrian bannerman behind dense ‘Master of the Rocks’ rockwork , while a further bannerman dismounts his horse beside a
tethered horse, all between a blobby-dot band at the foot and an interlocked fret band beneath the unglazed rim.

故 The underside with a two-character mark Qing Wan, Pure Trinket, within a double ring in underglaze blue, encircled by an unglazed
事 channel foot rim.
圖 7 inches, 17.8 cm diameter.

筆 Early Kangxi, circa 1670.

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• Formerly in the collection of Roberto Kramer.
清 • Formerly in the collection of Harriet Szechenyi, Switzerland.
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熙 • A similar brushpot in the Gugong Museum Collection, Beijing is illustrated by Chen Run Min in Qing Dynasty Porcelain and
早 Underglaze Blue of The Shunzhi and Kangxi Periods, no. 204, pp. 308/9.
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• Another similar brushpot of this early Kangxi group was published by Marchant in their exhibition of The Dr. Lowell Young

Collection, Ming & Qing Blue & White Porcelain, 2012, no. 21, pp. 48/9.

《 • Xie An (320-385) also known as Duke Wenjing of Luling was a Jin-dynasty (265-420) statesman. The scene on the brushpot

清 recalls the moment he received the news of victory after the battle of the Fei River.

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