Important Chinese Art
Important Chinese Art
PROPERTY FROM A NEW YORK PRIVATE COLLECTION
Auction Closed
September 23, 08:35 PM GMT
Estimate
25,000 - 35,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
A FAMILLE-VERTE 'SEVEN SAGES' BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 五彩竹林七賢圖筆筒
of cylindrical form, finely and vibrantly enameled with a continuous scene of the 'Seven Sages' in a bamboo grove with craggy overhanging rocks, engaged in various scholarly pursuits including one playing the qin, another reading poetry, and one practicing calligraphy on a rock face, accompanied by an attendant, the countersunk base partially glazed
Diameter 7⅜ in., 18.6 cm
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4th-5th December 1958, lot 268.
來源
Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1958年12月4至5日，編號268
The ‘Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove’ were a group of poets, musicians, and scholar-officials active in the third century who retreated from public service as an act of political protest. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this was a favorite subject of painters, carvers, and ceramicists, who depicted the scholars composing poetry, playing the qin, appreciating antiquities, and engaging in various lofty pursuits. Bamboo carvers and potters of the Kangxi era often applied this theme to brushpots and other objects for the scholar’s studio.
Compare a brushpot painted with the same subject matter in blue and white, from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, sold in these rooms, 20th March 2018, lot 313; and another blue and white brushpot also illustrating the ‘Seven Sages’ from the collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson sold in our London rooms, 7th November 2012, lot 33.
