KANGXI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE AND POSSIBLY OF THE PERIOD

The text Sheng zhu de xian chen song was authored by the Western Han poet Wang Bao (c. 84-53 BCE) for the Han Emperor Xuan (74-49 BCE), in praise of the Emperor's obtainment of able ministers. Compare the present lot to a brushpot with the same inscription which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28 November 1978, lot 269, then later included in Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics at the Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and illustrated in the Catalogue, Hong Kong, 1981, no. 112. Another similar brushpot was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 8 November 1982, lot 170; then again at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 3 October 2018, lot 141.