An inscribed underglaze-blue and copper-red brushpot, Mark and period of Kangxi | 清康熙 青花釉裏紅「聖主得賢臣頌」筆筒《大清康熙年製》款

CC Teng & Co., Taipei, 2014.

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慎德堂，台北，2014年

The passage inscribed on this brush pot is Shengzhu de qianchen song written by Wang Bao, praising the Emperor who can rely on excellent ministers. The seal in underglaze red reads Xi chao chuan gu ('antique to be handed down from our glorious dynasty'). During the Kangxi period, brush pots with prose poems inscribed in underglaze blue and underglaze-red seals became very popular, probably reflecting the Emperor’s keen interest in China’s literati tradition. Similar brush pots are also known inscribed with Su Dongpo’s Second Ode to the Red Cliff. As Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler suggest, it was not until the mid-Kangxi period that the characteristic concave unglazed base with a small glazed circular recess at the centre appeared. (Leaping the Dragon Gate, London, 2021, p. 437)

A brush pot with the same inscription and seal is in the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in Geng Baochang ed., Qinghua youli hong: Gugong bowuyuan cang wenwu zhenpin daxi, xia/ Blue and White Porcelain with Underglazed Red (III), Shanghai, 2000, pl. 189; another was sold in our Hong Kong rooms, 2nd October 2018, lot 141.

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此筒原文乃西漢王褒應和宣帝之詔所撰之文。落款為釉裏紅「熙翰傳古」陽文印款。康熙一朝取道儒家經典，師法漢人美学，「詩文詞賦」文字搭配青花或釉裏紅落款之筆筒蔚為時尚。蘇軾之「後赤壁賦」亦為代表。Teresa Canepa博士與Katharine Butler女士認為於康熙中期，中國瓷器無釉玉璧底開始出現中央一小圈釉面凹槽之特點。(《鯉躍龍門》，倫敦，2012年，頁437》)

北京故宮博物院藏一例同詩文落款筆筒，見於耿寶昌《故宫博物院藏文物珍品大系·青花釉里红》（下），上海，圖版189 ；另有一例售於香港蘇富比，2018年10月2 日，編號141。