Brush pot.
Category
Ceramics
Date
1635 - 1640
Materials
Porcelain
Measurements
4 in (Diameter)5.375 in (h)
Place of origin
Jingdezhen
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 718403
Summary
Brushpot, hardpaste porcelain. Of flaring cylindrical form painted with figures in a landscape after a historical drama with a contemporary political message. The scholar who has chosen life as a hermit rather than serve the new Qing dynasty rulers is speaking to an attendant carrying his cloth-wrapped Qin (stringed instrument), Chinese, Ming dynasty (1368-1643), Chongzhen period (1628-1643), c.1635-1640.