清康熙 青花竹林七賢圖三足筆筒 |

Solveig & Anita Gray，倫敦，2001年

Jeffrey P. Stamen、Cynthia Volk 及倪亦斌，《文采卓然：潔蕊堂藏康熙盛世瓷》，布呂赫，2017年，圖版36

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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, they were favorite subjects of painters, carvers, and ceramicists, who depicted them 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.

The present brushpot is further distinguished by the inclusion of the bracket feet that elevate the cylindrical form. The presence of feet on 17th century porcelain brushpots is rare. Normally, the base of a porcelain brushpot rested directly on the table's surface; feet were reserved for jardinières which required the elevation for drainage or censers which were raised to keep heat away from wood or lacquer surfaces. However, late Ming dynasty brushpots with similar tab or bracket feet carved from hardwoods, bamboo, ivory and lacquer imply that that elevation of the form was an established aesthetic choice and one that perhaps prevented the ring stains that often resulted from flat-based brushpots.  

A large blue and white brushpot with a strikingly similar composition and apocryphal Chenghua four-character mark from the Qing Court Collection in the Palace Museum, Beijing is illustrated in The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Blue and White Porcelain with Underglaze Red (III), Hong Kong, 2000, cat. no. 50. A related brushpot illustrating literati examining a handscroll beneath an upper border of rippling clouds in the collection of the Shanghai Museum is illustrated in Zhongguo taoci quanji: Qing (1) [The Complete Works of Chinese Ceramics: Qing I], vol. 14, Shanghai, 2000, pl. 48. Another blue and white brushpot illustrating the ‘Seven Sages’ from the collection of Peter and Nancy Thompson sold in our London rooms, 7th November 2012, lot 33.