Lot 30: Blue and White Brush Holder with Longevity Design 青花万寿纹笔筒

来源：于九十年代购自新加坡古董商店
Provenance: Acquired from an antique shop in Singapore in the 1990s

Diameter 口径 19 cm Height 高 15.3 cm Foot Diameter 足径 18.5 cm

Estimate 估价: SGD 250,000 – SGD 350,000
Starting Price 起拍价: SGD 200,000

直口，筒腹，腰部微收，玉璧底。内外施透明釉，釉面清亮光洁。通体以青花为饰，外壁满饰青花“寿”字纹，字体各异，包括篆、隶、行等多种书体，数量多达百个，寓意“百寿延年”，是清代宫廷流行的吉祥纹饰题材。底部为砂底，胎质坚致厚重。外底心以青花书“大清康熙年制”六字三行楷书款，这是康熙官窑瓷器的典型底足特征。

The vessel is potted with a straight mouth, cylindrical sides, a slightly constricted waist and a jade-disc-shaped base. It is covered inside and out with a transparent glaze, the surface clear, bright and smooth. The entire vessel is decorated in underglaze blue. The exterior is densely covered with the character shou (“longevity”), written in a variety of scripts, including seal, clerical and running scripts. Numbering as many as one hundred, these characters convey the auspicious meaning of “one hundred forms of longevity”, a popular theme in Qing court decoration.

The base is left unglazed with a sandy surface, the body of firm, dense and substantial texture. The centre of the base is inscribed in underglaze blue with the six-character mark in three vertical lines in regular script: “Da Qing Kangxi nian zhi” — “Made in the Kangxi reign of the Great Qing dynasty.” This is a typical foot and base treatment seen on Kangxi imperial porcelain.