清道光 白地藍彩描金題詩方筆筒 六字篆書款3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm.) high
北美私人珍藏,於1940年代購入,家傳至今
The inscriptions on the current brushpot derive from the imperial poems composed by Qianlong in 1731, before his succession to the throne, in praise of the Eight Views of Yanshan. The red seal marks contain the characters for 'Daoguang', 'imperial' and 'wei jing wei yi' ('be pure, be of one mind'). This brushpot appears to be copying an earlier prototype produced during the Qianlong period. An almost identical brushpot with a Qianlong mark to the base is in the National Palace Museum Collection in Taipei, illustrated in Stunning Decorative Porcelains from the Ch'ien-lung Reign, Taipei, 2008, pl. 59, pp. 177-178.