Period:Qing dynasty Production date:1644-1750
Materials:soapstone
Technique:
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Height: 13.10 centimetres Width: 13 centimetres Depth: 8.60 centimetres
Description:
Brush-pot. Building and figure in landscape. Made of soapstone (steatite).
IMG
![图片[1]-brush-pot BM-SLMisc.562-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00363743_001.jpg)
![图片[2]-brush-pot BM-SLMisc.562-China Archive](https://chinaarchive.net/Qin dynasty/43/mid_00208524_001.jpg)
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 562 “562. A pott made of a past to put burn perfumes in in China.” AWF 1853 – “pieced vase. A house & figures within branch work. H. 5 in. Steatite.”
Materials:soapstone
Technique:
Subjects:landscape
Dimensions:Height: 13.10 centimetres Width: 13 centimetres Depth: 8.60 centimetres
Description:
Brush-pot. Building and figure in landscape. Made of soapstone (steatite).
IMG
Comments:Sir Hans Sloane’s ‘Miscellanea’ catalogue is a bound volume in Central Archives containing seven separate catalogues: ‘Miscellanies’, ‘Antiquities’, ‘Seals’, ‘Pictures’, ‘Mathematical Instruments’, ‘Agate Handles’ and ‘Agate Cups, Bottles, Spoons’. Each contains numbered entries that list and describe objects collected by Sloane between the 1680s and 1750s. Each catalogue begins with object number one. Text from Sloane Miscellanea catalogue: Miscellanea Miscellanies 562 “562. A pott made of a past to put burn perfumes in in China.” AWF 1853 – “pieced vase. A house & figures within branch work. H. 5 in. Steatite.”
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