A CARVED AND INCISED WHITE BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

the exterior carved with a continuous scene of a mountainous riverscape with thatched cottages with the details further incised, one side carved with a lone fisherman sailing across the river in a sampan with a fishing rod while a scholar meditates below a pine tree in the distance, all below wispy cloud scrolls and towering mountains, the other side further carved with mountains and craggy rockwork, the underside centred with a slight circular depression containing a six-character apocryphal Jiajing mark in underglaze blue, all beneath a transparent glaze

The overall condition is very good with some stained surface scratches, burst air bubbles and occasional glaze pulls. There is also a 0.5 cm C-shaped firing crack to the base.
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A similar white-glazed brushpot also carved with a continuous riverscape scene but with a Shang Feng Bo Zhi mark from the Shanghai Museum Collection is illustrated in Kangxi Porcelain Wares from the Shanghai Museum Collection, Hong Kong, 1998, cat. no. 233.