of bombé form, the exterior with a continuous riverside landscape modeled in slip for a multi-dimensional surface, the distant mountains, nearby lodges, trees, and lone boatman on the water in underglaze blue set amidst celadon-glazed rolling hills, bright copper-red leaves accenting the foliage, the interior white, the base with a six-character mark in underglaze blue within a double circle, coll. no. 58.

The Jie Rui Tang Collection.

Provenance: Christie's Hong Kong, 17th January 1989, lot 735.
Collection of Mary Porter Walsh (1928-2012). 
Sotheby’s New York, 29th November 1994, lot 367. 
Marchant, London, 1996.

Exhibited: Imperial Porcelain of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, S. Marchant & Son, London, 1996, cat. no. 11.

Literature: Jeffrey P. Stamen and Cynthia Volk with Yibin Ni, A Culture Revealed: Kangxi-era Porcelain from the Jie Rui Tang Collection, Bruges, 2017, pl. 15.

Note: Censers decorated in this technique are rare, however several brushpots, vases, and jardinières with this palette, texturing, and subject matter survive. An example of a brushpot of this type with a Kangxi six-character mark from the Qing Court Collection in the National Palace Museum is illustrated in Porcelain of the National Palace Museum: Enameled Ware of the Qing Dynasty (I), Hong Kong, 1969, pl. 1.

Sotheby's. KANGXI: The Jie Rui Tang Collection, New York, 20 March 2018, 11:00 AM