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A VERY RARE FAMILLE VERTE INSCRIBED BRUSHPOT, BITONG
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    HK$2,500,000 - HK$3,000,000
  • ($323,558 - $388,270)

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Sale 2811
The Imperial Sale Important Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art
31 May 2010
Hong Kong Buy Catalog





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A VERY RARE FAMILLE VERTE INSCRIBED BRUSHPOT, BITONG
KANGXI PERIOD (1662-1722)

Finely and naturalistically painted on one side with a bird perched on bamboo, a bamboo shoot, a blossoming and budding chrysanthemum, and a poinsetta, the reverse decorated in black enamel with a ten-character inscription followed by two square seals, Si and Yuan, in iron-red
6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm.) high, box


清康熙 五彩詩句竹雀紋筆筒

器呈圓筒形，直壁，平底，底中心有內凹圓臍。外壁一面以紅、綠、黑、黃等彩描繪修竹三枝，枝幹粗壯，竹葉茂盛，鳥兒棲息與竹枝上，竹枝旁有筍一個，菊花盛放，一片秋天的景象；另一面以黑彩題五言詩兩句：「獨凌霜雪伴，芳心空自知。」句末鈐「西」、「園」陽文聯珠方印。

此筆筒上所繪之圖案筆法蒼勁老到，將詩、書、畫和印巧妙地結合在一起，更添文人情趣，盡顯瓷工匠的技藝高超，把高鳳翰的畫風，表現得淋漓盡致。北京故宮博物院藏有數件高鳳翰畫稿的筆筒及茶壺，特別是茶壺上的圖案 (圖一)，應與此筆筒出自同一畫稿。見《故宮珍藏康雍乾瓷器圖錄》圖版59、60。

高鳳翰（1683-1748）字西園，號南村又號且園，晚號南阜山人，常自稱老阜，一號石頑老子，松懶道人，櫱琴老人。工書、畫，善山水， 縱逸不拘於法，純以氣勝，兼北宋之雄渾，元人之靜逸。花卉亦妙是天趣。老年患風，右臂不仁，用左手作畫，筆益蒼辣，故號尚左生， 歸雲老人，博學精藝，尤豪於詩，早為王士禎所賞識。

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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE ASIAN COLLECTOR

Lot Notes

There appears to be a small group of ceramics that are also boldly inscribed with running script using black enamel from the Qing Court collection, illustrated in Porcelains in Polychrome and Contrasting Colours, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press, 1999, p. 92, no. 84, a teapot (fig. 1); and two brushpots, pp. 98-99, nos. 90 and 91. All of these vessels, as with the present example, bear a two-character sealmarks in red enamel: Si and Yuan, placed at the end of the calligraphy which when read together means 'The West Garden'. Of all the brushpots, the varied poetic verses are in five-character stanza. The couplet on the present brushpot maybe translated as:

Alone with the snow as (my) companion;
Other than oneself, no one knows (my) inner desires.

In accordance with the Beijing Palace Museum catalogue entry, loc. cit, p. 99, the characters 'Si Yuan' identify the calligraphy of the famous artist, Gao Fenghan (1683-1749). Gao Fenghan's name is listed in Zhongguo Meishu Jiarenming Cidian, Shanghai Renmin Chubanshe, 1985, p. 787.

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