A RARE SIMULATED-BAMBOO BRUSHPOT

细节

A RARE SIMULATED-BAMBOO BRUSHPOT
IRON-RED QIANLONG SEAL MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

The cylindrical brushpot is enamelled on the exterior with a band of confronted archaistic dragons, reserved on a shaded sepia ground finely scored through to simulate bamboo skin, the top of the rim and the underside of the footrim finely spotted in sepia to simulate the characteristic cross-section of bamboo, the interior and base enamelled turquoise (enamel cracks from rim)
3 3/8 in. (8.5 cm.) high

拍品专文

Previously sold in Hong Kong, 16 November 1988, lot 400.

The present lot is one of a group of Qianlong porcelain made to imitate other materials such as hardstone, wood, archaic bronze vessels, cloisonne enamel and lacquer. For a discussion on the virtuosity of the Chinese potters during the Qianlong period in simulating other materials in porcelain, see S. Jenyns, Later Chinese Porcelain, 1971, p. 67.

Compare a pair of Qianlong marked simulated-bamboo wall vases enamelled with similar archaistic dragons sold in our London Rooms, 4 December 1995, lot 121.

(US$6,500-9,00)