6th Nov, 2025 10:00

Chinese Art 中國藝術 - Including the Santos Collection
 
  Lot 31
 

A fine Chinese Dehua reticulated 'peony' brush pot, bitong, Qing dynasty, Kangxi period
清康熙 德化白瓷鏤雕纏枝蓮紋筆筒

The finely potted and reticulated dehua (blanc-de-chine) cylindrical brushpot decorated throughout with openwork stylised peony scrolls, covered in a white glaze

(Quantity:1)

Dimensions: 13,5 cm high; 9.5cm diameter

Provenance:

Santos Collection

來源:

桑托斯收藏

Notes:

See a comparable Dehua brush pot from the Jie Rui Tang collection, sold at Sotheby's New York, 19 March 2019, lot 330 [link].

Please refer to similar example in Blanc de Chine, by P. J. Donnelly, London 1969, for other bitongs, plate 9 A; plate 58 B; plate 58 C; plate 59 C. Please also note a similar example sold at auction from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Sotheby's, New York, Kangxi: The Jie Rui Tang Collection, Part II, 19 March 2019, lot 330; another from the Peter and Nancy Thompson Collection sold at Christie's, London, 17 May 2013, lot 1365.

A similar brushpot is illustrated by Wang Yamin and Huang Weiwen in 'Dehua Wares Collected by the Palace Museum', II, no. 240, pp. 524/5. Another bitong was included by Marchant in their exhibition 'Blanc de Chine', 1985, no. 38, p. 24; other slightly smaller examples of this type were also illustrated by Marchant in their exhibition 'Blanc de Chine', 1985, no. 37, p. 24, and also in their exhibition 'Blanc de Chine', 1994, no. 105, p. 68.

可比較一件德化白釉筆筒,原屬「介如堂」收藏,曾於紐約蘇富比二〇一九年三月十九日《康熙──介如堂珍藏(二)》專場拍賣,編號三三〇。

參見《德化白瓷》,作者P.J. Donnelly,1969年倫敦出版,圖版 9A、58B、58C、59C,所錄同類筆筒。另參見一件出自「介如堂」收藏之例,亦於上述專場拍賣中成交,編號三三〇;另有一件出自 Peter 與 Nancy Thompson 收藏,曾於倫敦佳士得二〇一三年五月十七日拍賣,編號一三六五。

另參見王亞敏、黃偉雯,《故宮博物院藏德化瓷器》,卷二,編號二四〇,第524-525頁 所錄相類筆筒。又見 Marchant 於一九八五年「德化白瓷」展覽,編號三八,第24頁 所錄;另有數例體量稍小者,錄於同展,編號三七,第24頁 ;以及其一九九四年「德化白瓷」展覽,編號一〇五,第68頁。

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