Chinese Ming Dynasty blue & white architectural landscape porcelain brush pot. Porcelain brush holder 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 in clean white underglaze base color which contrast against the cobalt blue design color. The exterior adorned with peace village beside rocky hill, Lishui river, ruyi clouds, and various tree. A characteristic heaped and piled effect, the underglaze grayish-blue concentrates in certain areas, bubbling through the surface of the glaze. The foot rim reveals the cut edges during the making process, and the base left unglazed with grayish creme-brown ground and dark spots of firing marks. The underside unglazed, revealed the pale-creme ground revealed and dark grayish brown spotted firing marks and edge-cut foot rim. The clay is very fine, with a brilliant glaze finish that was applied by a meticulous, the shape is uniformly proportioned.
Over all in EXCELLENT condition.
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