WINTER EXHIBITION 2008 - Roger Keverne

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A porcelain brush pot (bitong)
Kangxi period, dated by ink inscription
1706
Height: 4N in, 12.1 cm
of cylindrical form with a wide, concave
foot and a small, recessed base glazed
white. The vessel is painted with a spray
of flowers, leaves, bamboo and rocks, and
butterflies, in the famille-verte palette, and
with a leaf and a seal mark, reading Linju
(Forest dweller) in iron-red. An unglazed
ring on the foot bears an ink inscription
dated the sixth month of the forty-fifth year
of Kangxi (corresponding to 1706).
A similar brush pot also bearing an ink
inscription, dated 1720, is illustrated in
our Winter 2006 exhibition, no. 60, p. 61,
and also in Wiesner, Chinesische Keramik:
Meisterwerke aus Privatsammlungen,
no. 131, p. 179.
For further examples, see Li, Mingmo
Qingchu Ci Bitong Bianwei Shizhen,
pp. 82–3; and Porcelains in Polychrome
and Contrasting Colours: The Complete
Collection of Treasures of the Palace
Museum, no. 89, p. 97.