A BLUE AND WHITE 'LANDSCAPE BRUSHPOT SIX-CHARACTER MARK AND PERIOD OF KANGXI

well painted in underglaze-blue with three landscape panels, containing figures boating in island estuaries, all raised on three shaped bracket feet

Collection of James E. Breece III. 
Collection of Pullen.

Blue & White Porcelain from the Pullen Collection, Spink and Son, London, 1998, p. 20, cat. no. 22.

The brushpot is in good condition overall with the exception of overpainting to a circa 8cm. wide section of the lower edge of the side, a tiny and shallow hairline firing line to the side, and light glaze scratches.
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It is rare to find blue-and-white brushpots of this broad cylindrical form with a Kangxi reign mark, although a brushpot of this type painted with figures, also with a Kangxi six-character reign mark and of the period, is illustrated in Qing Shunzhi Kangxi chao qinghua ci, vol. 1, Beijing, 2005, pl. 208. See another Kangxi mark and period brushpot of related shape decorated with landscape, from the Robert Chang collection, sold at Christie's Hong Kong, 1st October 1991, lot 930.