Kangxi

Kangxi

Large Chinese blue and white brush pot (bitong), Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with groups of scholars accompanied by their attendants engaged in the four scholarly pursuits of scroll painting..
Large Chinese blue and white brush pot (bitong), Kangxi (1662-1722), decorated with groups of scholars accompanied by their attendants engaged in the four scholarly pursuits of scroll painting, calligraphy, lute playing and chess (weiqi), all in a fenced garden with rockwork and bamboo, with apocryphal Chenghua mark to base, height: approx. 6in., 15.2cm; diameter: approx. 7 1/8in., 18cm. Provenance: Purchased from Henry Woods Wilson, Pimlico Road, circa 1970. A Kangxi blue and white brush pot similarly depicting the four scholarly pursuits is illustrated in 'The Palace Museum's Collection of Blue and White Porcelains from Kangxi Period of Qing Dynasty I' (The Forbidden City Publishing House, 2016), pp. 470-471, pl. 223. Also see; Sir Michael Butler and Professor Wang Qingzheng, 'Seventeenth Century Jingdezhen porcelain from the Shanghai Museum and the Butler Collections' (2006), pp. 280-281, pl. 102. SOLD

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