New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2006.

Cylindrical Brush Pot with Decoration of Ducks Swimming in a Pond Under a Willow Tree

Artist Unknown

CultureChinese | Qing Dynasty | Kang Xi Period

Dateearly 18th century

MediumPorcelain | Enamel

DimensionsOverall: 6 1/8 x 7 5/8 in. (15.6 x 19.4 cm)

InscribedCenter bottom; circular indentation contains underglaze blue nian hao of Kangxi.

Credit LineGift of Dr. James C. Perry in Memory of Nancy Nash Perry

Object number36.8.157

Collections

Asian Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 106

DescriptionWide cylindrical container has flat bottom of which half is unglazed. Body burned to light tan. Piece painted in famille jaune enamels of yellow, aubergine and green. Two rectangular scenes, one of a bird sitting on a rock watching insects around flowering branch and the other two swans and cygnets swimming in pond. Both have yellow sky area. Surrounding areas are filled with diaper pattern. Interior glazed, white.
Base with underglaze imperial mark reading “Da Qing Kangxinian zhi” (Made during the Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty.