R1380
£29,500
Description
Chinese porcelain white-glazed anhua decorated cylindrical brushpot, incised on the body with butterflies in flight amongst bamboo, flowering peony and daisies issuing from rock work, all between bands of stylised crested waves at the foot and a continuous scrolling flowering branch with leaves beneath the glazed rim, the underside with the smooth, pure white biscuit revealing the body.
Transitional period, Chongzheng, circa 1640.
6 1/2 inches, 16.5 cm high; 3 3/8 inches, 8.6 cm diameter.
Provenance & Additional Information
- From the private collection of Eileen Lesouëf, France.
- Sold by Ben Janssens Oriental Art, London, 17thJune 1999.
- Included by Ben Janssens in Seventeenth Century Blue and White Porcelain from the Private Collection of Eileen Lesouëf, 1999, no. 44.
- Included by Sam Marsh in Brushpots, A Collector’s View, 2020, pp. 170/1, where the author notes that the glaze may have been inspired by Northern Song yingqing wares with a qingbai glaze.
- The anhua, hidden design, carved into the body before firing, is of butterflies, hudie, and tree peonies, fuguihua, which forms the rebus fudie fugui, ‘may you have an abundance of high status and wealth’.
- Several related white-glazed anhuacarved pieces are illustrated by Teresa Canepa and Katharine Butler in Leaping the Dragon Gate, The Sir Michael Butler Collection of Seventeenth-Century Chinese Porcelain. A stem-cup modelled as a bell is similarly decorated, while two oviform jars and a slender gu-shaped vase are also illustrated, nos. III.5.3.a.b, III.5.4, III.5.5a,b & III.5.8, pp. 499/500.
Condition
Excellent condition, minute inner rim nick.
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