A LARGE BLUE AND WHITE 'SEVEN SAGES' BRUSHPOT, Kangxi (1662 - 1722)
Diameter: 19 cm; 7 1/2 ins.
Of cylindrical form, raised on three short feet, finely painted in shades of underglaze blue with a continuous scene of scholars in a bamboo grove surrounded by pines and scrolling...
Of cylindrical form, raised on three short feet, finely painted in shades of underglaze blue with a continuous scene of scholars in a bamboo grove surrounded by pines and scrolling clouds; one sage is calligraphing a rock while another looks on, a third plays the qin, surrounded by an audience of three more sages, listening while observing an arrangement of antiques before them, and an elderly sage leans on a gnarled staff, strolling with his attendant; the base glazed with an unglazed ring, painted with an apocryphal six-character mark of Chenghua in underglaze blue.
Publications
Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 36.
