AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED BRUSHPOT, BITONG

18TH CENTURY

细节

AN UNUSUAL BLUE AND WHITE AND COPPER-RED BRUSHPOT, BITONG
18th Century
The broad cylindrical body well painted in underglaze blue with a long calligraphic inscription written in cao shu (cursive script) and with three seals in copper red, one reading Wu Yue (the calligrapher's seal), another reading Dian Heng (the calligrapher's "art name") and the third reading Tao Cheng Tang (the studio's seal), all within bowstring borders at the rims, the base with an unglazed ring encircling a recessed center
7in. (19cm.) diam.

拍品专文

The main body of the calligraphy is a copy of part of the famous letter by Wang Xi Zhi (A.D. 321-379), called Shi Qi Tie. The content of this part of the letter is of a trivial nature. The calligraphy, however, is very important, as Wang Xi Zhi was the acknowledged master of cao shu. The last nine characters constitute the calligrapher's postscript, in which he identifies his work as a copy exercise

Another cao shu-inscribed brushpot of similar size and proportions, but with characters reserved in white against a blue ground, is illustrated in Qing Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong Periods from the Palace Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1989, p. 128, pl. 111