of cylindrical form, the exterior deftly incised with three sinuous chilong roaming a ground of profuse foliage issuing from scrolling lingzhi stems, a narrow chevron border beneath the rim, covered overall in a green glaze pooling in the recesses, the interior white, the base partially unglazed and with a recessed central medallion with an apocryphal four-character Xuande mark in underglaze blue, coll. no. 1300.

The Jie Rui Tang Collection.

Provenance: Berwald Oriental Art, London, 2004.

Note: A celadon-glazed brushpot of this design in the collection of Anthony Gustav de Rothschild is illustrated in Regina Krahl, The Anthony de Rothschild Collection of Chinese Ceramics, vol. 2, London, 1996, cat. no. 143. A pair of celadon-glazed brushpots from the Brooke Astor Collection (one similarly carved with chilong) sold in these rooms, 24th-25th September 2012, lot 148, and another nearly identical brushpot sold in these rooms, 15th September 2015, lot 77.