Descrizione
Description: Chinese blue and white vessel decorated with a Scholar and his attendant facing a grandiose mountainous lake landscape . It is painted in the “Master of the Rocks style”, and surely one of the better examples. It is sturdily potted with steep rising sides and an everted rim, which was bound in metal. The metal was in bad conditions and it has been removed. The facts that all the few vessels of this shape, that we are aware of, are fitted with a metal ring, and especially the flat bottom, are suggesting that they were meant as brush washers. Early Kangxi period.
Dating: 17th century, early Kangxi period, Qing dynasty.
Size: 25.3 cm diameter
Provenance: Antiquarian market
References: See, in the last picture, a page of the catalog of a Bonham’s auction. On the left, a dish with the metal rim and the same shape of this one; on the right, a Master of the Rock dish.
Notes: The term ‘Master of the Rocks’ was introduced by the collector and author Gerald Reitlinger, and describes the distinctive style of depicting landscapes on a diagonal, with thick curvilinear strokes providing the outlines and thinner, parallel contours used to create the depth of the rockwork. Such landscapes represent one of the most important developments in ceramic decoration of the seventeenth century.
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