A fine and rare underglaze-blue and copper-red inscribed Brushpot Mark and Period of Kangxi

Estimate

700,000 - 900,000 HKD

bidding is closed

Description

of cylindrical form, the exterior finely decorated with the text of sheng zhu de xian chen song 'Ode to the finding of Virtuous Officials by the Divine Ruler' in kaishu script, finished with a mock seal in copper-red, reading Xi Chao Chuan Gu, 'The Court of Kangxi transmitting Antiquity', the base with a recessed circle in the centre inscribed with a six-character mark

Provenance

Sotheby's Hong Kong, 28th November 1978, lot 269.

Exhibited

Exhibition of Ancient Chinese Ceramics, Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1981, cat.no. 112.

Literature

Tong Yihua, Zhongguo lidai taoci kuanshi huiji, col. Pl. 25 and pl. 75A.

Catalogue Note

Other Kangxi marked brushpots with the same inscription and seals were sold in these rooms, 2nd May 2000, lot 577, and 8th November 1982, lot 170. Another with the same inscription was included in the Singapore Art Society Exhibition of Chinese Art, 1953, cat.no. 94.