A RARE YIXING SLIP-DECORATED BRUSHPOT BY YANG JICHU, QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG PERIOD

of cylindrical form, the exterior delicately decorated in coloured slip in the manner of ink painting, depicting a continuous landscape with a sage clad in blue robes carrying a staff below two gnarled trees, holding the hands of a small boy and slowly journeying towards plateaued mountains in a distance, in the foreground some scattered shrubs growing from rocky ledges below birds in flight, the stoneware of a mottled beige-brown tone, the recessed base with a square seal signed Yang Jichu
d. 20.3 cm, 8 in.

Provenance:
Tsui Museum of Art, Hong Kong.