Lot Essay
This brush box is based on an Islamic metalwork shape; for an example compare Rachel Ward, Islamic Metalwork, London, 1993, p.70.
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KANGXI (1662-1722)
Details
A FINE AND RARE BLUE AND WHITE PENBOX
KANGXI (1662-1722)
The cover painted with a dragon emerging from cresting waves below clouds, the sides with a leiwen-band, the base painted to the exterior with paired interlocking C-scrolls amidst stylised ruyi-heads, the interior with three circular and a larger rectangular shaped compartments, a channelled unglazed foot
9 in. (22.9cm.) long
KANGXI (1662-1722)
The cover painted with a dragon emerging from cresting waves below clouds, the sides with a leiwen-band, the base painted to the exterior with paired interlocking C-scrolls amidst stylised ruyi-heads, the interior with three circular and a larger rectangular shaped compartments, a channelled unglazed foot
9 in. (22.9cm.) long
Provenance
George Eumorfopoulos, D.6. sticker, The actual number in the collection is E. 34; the stickers probably changed in this private collection.
Literature
R.L. Hobson, The Eumorfopoulos Collection, Catalogue, Plate VII, E. 34.
Special notice
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