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Shunzhi
The cylindrical vessel with straight sides rising from a flat unglazed base, decorated around the exterior in vibrant tones of green and iron-red enamel over underglaze blue with blossoming peony sprays issuing from craggy rockwork, beside which a pheasant perches, with two further birds in flight above. 20.7cm (8 1/9in) diam.
Footnotes
清順治 五彩花鳥山石圖筆筒
Provenance:
Paul M Peters Fine Art Ltd., Harrogate
Acquired from the above on 7 June 2004
Published and Illustrated:
S.Marsh, Brushpots: A Collector's View, Hong Kong, 2020, pp.208-209
來源:
英國哈羅蓋特古董商Paul M Peters Fine Art Ltd.
從上處獲得于2004年6月7日
墨一閑,《筆筒淵鑒:收藏家的隨心所悟》,香港,2020年,第208-209頁
See a related brushpot decorated with a similar scene of a pheasant perched upon rockwork beside peonies, illustrated in , Alexandria, Virginia, 2002, pp.118–119, which was later sold at Christie's New York, 'An Era of Inspiration: 17th-Century Chinese Porcelains from the Collection of Julia and John Curtis', 16 March 2015, lot 3542.
Compare also with a related blue and white baluster jar and cover, Shunzhi, with similar design of pheasant, rockwork and peonies, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in , Beijing, 2005, p.73, no.36. See also a cylindrical vase, Shunzhi, with similar design of peonies and pheasants, in the Qing Court Collection, illustrated in , Shanghai, 1999, p.67, no.62.
The golden pheasant, native to southern China and distinguished by its brilliant plumage of yellow, red, and gold, was an especially auspicious decorative motif during the Ming and Qing dynasties. Within the Imperial hierarchy, representations of the bird appeared on the embroidered rank badges of civil officials (the second rank after the crane), and it gradually came to symbolise the cultivated scholar-official serving within the bureaucracy. As the sinologist Wolfram Eberhard observed, the long-tailed pheasant became associated with literary refinement, rank, and official distinction; see , London, 1986, p.234. Depicted poised elegantly upon rockwork amidst flowering peonies, the subject emerged as one of the most characteristic decorative themes of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries.
See a pair of baluster vases and cover, Shunzhi, with similar design of pheasant and peonies, which was sold at Bonhams London, 9 November 2017, lot 292.