Lot Essay
A huanghuali brush pot of similar form, carved as a flowering lotus blossom and with flowering branches on the sides, originally in the collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, is now at Yale University Art Museum, illustrated by M. Gardner Neill, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale, China Institute, New York, 1982, p. 133, no. 59b. A related foliate-form huanghuali brush pot of identical size is illustrated by C. Evarts in Liang Yi Collection – Small Objects, Hong Kong, 2007, p. 35, no. 16.
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