A BLUE AND WHITE ‘RIVER LANDSCAPE’ BRUSHPOT, BITONG, MID-QING PERIODChina, 18th to mid-19th century. Of circular section, painted in underglaze blue with a continuous mountain and river landscape scattered with farmers carrying their harvest, plowing, and pulling an outsized buffalo, fishermen on boats, and observers in pavilions.Provenance: Sotheby’s Melbourne, 29-30 November 2005. Professor Jocelyn Chey, Sydney, Australia, acquired from the above. Jocelyn Chey is a Professor at the University of Sydney. She formerly served as China Relations Officer in the Department of Overseas Trade before being posted to Beijing as the first Australian Cultural Counsellor. Influenced by her husband Moon Lin Chey, who was a collector himself, and a close friend of the noted Chinese artist Huang Yongyu, the pair assembled a fine collection of Chinese works of art over a period of more than three decades.Condition: Good condition with some old wear, traces of use, the mouth rim smoothened, the foot with a hairline crack and small chip with associated minuscule losses, and manufacturing irregularities including firing flaws, kiln grit, pitting, and dark spots.Weight: 1,562 gDimensions: Diameter 17.3 cmAuction resultparison:Type: RelatedAuction: Christie’s Hong Kong, 4 April 2017, lot 127Price: HKD 52,500 or approx.EUR 6,800 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writingDescription: A blue and white ‘landscape’ brush pot, bitong, 18th-19th centuryExpert remark:pare the related form, landscape, and figures. Note the similar size (18.5 cm).清代中期青花山水景觀筆筒中國，十八至十九世紀中期。圓口，筒腹，圈足，器施白釉，通體運青花作飾，主題紋飾青花山水人物，村子裏一天的生活場景，如拱橋之上樵夫擔著木材，河上漁夫捕魚；畫面採用山石草木做過度轉景，銜接極為自然，兩岸開闊，江水茫茫，整圖青花髮色濃淡相宜，將山水與人文景觀巧妙結合。