A fine underglaze blue porcelain brush pot underglaze blue

Description:

China, Chongzhen to early Kangxi period
H. 14 cm
Cylindrical. Around the wall in graduated underglaze blue scene with Wen, King of Zhou, visiting Jiang Ziya at the Wei River. Unglazed base with firing crack
From old German diplomatic property, by inheritance to the present owners
Cf. Julia B. Curtis, Chinese Porcelains of the Seventeenth Century: Landscapes, Scholars' Motifs and Narratives, New York, 1995, pp. 102-103, no. 34 - The lightly glazed rim with few very small chips and glaze frits, firing crack in the base, resulting in a fine hairline crack inside at the bottom into the wall