Chinese Qing Dynasty Period Kangxi blue & white landscape brush pot. Porcelain brush pot is sturdily in cylindrical straight body, thick potted, with flat base, deep curvature, slight tall and gentle upward to wide opening form rim. All reserved hand painted ornamentations are rendered in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the blue fine color. The Exterior adorned with peace pavilion beside rocky hill, Lishui water, ruyi clouds, and dense tree with various tones, all in mountain landscape. Many mountains in China are sacred, some to Daoist, some to Buddhists and some to both In folk religion each mountain has its own deity associated with it. Mountain is one of the eight trigrams in Feng Shui and Yi Jing. Of these Taishan is considered the most important and stones from the mountain were often placed in towns across China as a lucky charm. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the underglaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze and turning a deep blue-black. This inadvertently gave texture, energy, and shading to the design. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.

The Under-base bears a reign mark, a six underglaze blue script characters reign mark, Made In The Years of Kangxi Reign Period of The Great Qing Dynasty.

Height:7.75 in
Width: 9.5 in
Depth: 9.5 in

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