The qing emperor kangxi Blue and white bamboo seven sages figure pen container

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record: London Solveig & Anita Gray auction, 2001; Sotheby’s in New York, March 20, 2018, no. 0313.

note: this product straight wall, floor, the bottom of the jade, bearing the three best form. Brush pot strong carcass quality, glaze Bai Zhongshan green, has the feeling of tight PiLiang glaze. Perfect with blue and white paint facing, blue and white hair colour quietly elegant, through seven sages of bamboo forest scene graph, or play the reward, or wall in the book, natural and unrestrained character lines, expression vividly, landscape layout shu lang, painting paintings. Jade shape at the bottom of the vase, umbilical blue book “da Ming chenghua year” within six to three lines regular script on money. This work and the Palace Museum collection “kangxi, blue and white bamboo brush pot” seven sages diagram similar; see the Palace Museum, selected in the qing dynasty porcelain class qing shunzhi, kangxi dynasty blue and white porcelain “, the Forbidden City publishing house, 2011, pp. 319, 209. Can be used as objects. Seven sages of bamboo forest ruan ji, ji kang, shan tao, Liu Ling, a plucked stringed instrument, a plucked stringed instrument, and to show cauley of wei jin in the early years at the end of the seven highly talented romantic writer, although their ideas tend to be slightly different, but very friendly with each other. They lived on informal decorums, quietism, often drink or ZongGe congregated in the bamboo forest. Wei jin the simmering between father and son, the false benevolence hypocrisy, depriving, in one of the seven sages of bamboo forest would not become Ma Chaoting tool, and cannot bear to see the tactics under the pollution of thoughtless treacherous the manners, and to use the “talk” correct the hearts, with “setting” to stimulate the power, to do with “wine dun” silent rebellious behavior of libel, meeting and so on. Period between Ming dynasty and early qing “seven sages of bamboo forest” is a lot of literati’s subject matter, such as used for painting, porcelain decorative design, sculpture, etc. Seize the product painted seven sages in the bamboo forest, this is chat it is good playing chess, poetry of fu, is comfortable. Kangxi period of four with a device, especially the brush pot fire is very popular. This not only meets the need of literati or her, the modelling of the highly ornamental and painting also let the people get spiritual enlightenment. The product shape dignified, blue and white hair color quietly elegant is downy,; painting artistic conception far-reaching, source and clear succession and orderly, is to hide to Jane, is extremely rare.
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refer to: “the national Palace Museum, selected in the qing dynasty porcelain class qing shunzhi, kangxi dynasty blue and white porcelain”, the Forbidden City publishing house, 2011, pp. 319, 209.