A VERY RARE GRISAILLE-DECORATED BRUSH-POT, BITONG

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A VERY RARE GRISAILLE-DECORATED BRUSH-POT, BITONG
ENCIRCLED YONGZHENG SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND OF THE PERIOD

Of cylindrical form, finely painted en grisaille on the exterior with two figures, each riding on a donkey crossing a stream in a lake scene, followed by an attendant carrying over his shoulder a bundle tied to a closed parasol, the interior and exterior glazed white except for a bi-shaped biscuit base with the nian hao painted in the recessed central disc
5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm.) high

拍品专文

Compare with brushpots also painted in sepia with landscape scenes, one illustrated in Selected Ceramics from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. J.M. Hu, 1989, Catalogue, pl. 50; another in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, published in Beurdeley and Raindre, Qing Porcelain, 1987, pl. 133, both with Yongzheng marks.

It is interesting to note that the painting on this brushpot and other like pieces share many similarities in style, subject-matter and technique with contemporaneous monochrome-ink handscroll paintings.

(US$16,000-24,000)