Each exquisitely molded in the form of a bamboo grove with gaps between each stem, issuing bamboo leaves and applied with gnarled branches of flowering prunus and pine.
Each exquisitely molded in the form of a bamboo grove with gaps between each stem, issuing bamboo leaves and applied with gnarled branches of flowering prunus and pine.
For of pair of turquoise-glazed bamboo-stem brush pots mounted as baskets with ormolu handles and stands, from the royal English collection is illustrated by J.Ayers, Chinese and Japanese Works of Art in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen, vol.2, London, 2016, nos.1438-1439
Another pair of turquoise-glazed bamboo-stem brush pots is illustrated by R.Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol.2, 1996, no.262.
Another pair was in the collection of the baron Philippe de Rothschild, see Ader Picard Tajan, Objets d’art et de très bel ameublement – Porcelaine de la Compagnie des Indes Biscuit bleu de la Chine provenant principalement des Collections Anténor Patino et du baron Philippe de Rothschild, 9-10 juin 1976, Paris, Palais Galliera, no. 61.
A brush pot was in the collection Fauchier-Magnan, Bleu Turquoise de la Chine – Collection de M. Fauchier-Magnan, Paris, Drouot, 13 juin 1928, no. 16.
This form is also well-known decorated in famille verte enamels on the biscuit, see J.P.Stamen, C.Volk, and Ni Yibin, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Chinese Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Boston, 2017, p.108.
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