WANLI (1573-1619)
Details
A RED LACQUER BRUSH AND COVER
Wanli (1573-1619)
Carved in relief around the handle with a bird perched on a blossoming prunus branch, the cover decorated with the 'Three Friends of Winter', all reserved on a trellis-pattern ground between leiwen bands, the tip of the handle with a lingzhi fungus and the cover with a shou-character
9¾ in. (24.8cm.) long
Wanli (1573-1619)
Carved in relief around the handle with a bird perched on a blossoming prunus branch, the cover decorated with the 'Three Friends of Winter', all reserved on a trellis-pattern ground between leiwen bands, the tip of the handle with a lingzhi fungus and the cover with a shou-character
9¾ in. (24.8cm.) long
Literature
Two similar brushes are illustrated in Ming Lacquer, Catalogue, London: Bluett & Sons, 1960, No.'s 20 & 21, Pl. 16; compare also the red lacquer brush exhibited by the Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum in 1984, and illustrated in Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, Catalogue, ed. W. Watson, No. 276; and two others in P.Y.K. Lam (ed.), op. cit., Pl. 52, p. 109, and Pl. 71, p. 139
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PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT IS NOT ILLUSTRATED IN THE CATALOGUE.