Object Description
Kangxi – Bitong or brush pot. Made from porcelain and painted with under glaze blue decoration to show a continuous Mountainous river landscape with Confucian scholars on a promontory, fishermen in San Pans and rocky island retreats. The landscape is fringed with various trees including pine trees. The sky shows the sun setting with a skein of geese flying near.
The brush pot is very well painted with excellent colour and the decoration is an excellent subject matter.
made at Jingdezhen during the reign of the Emperor Kangxi
The water is littered I one area with floating lily pads near the shore, again which adds to the character of the painting.
Height 15.50 cm (6.10 inches)
Diameter 12.00 cm (4.72 inches)