**A Rare Lacquered Ivory Hexagonal Brushpot

18TH CENTURY

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**A Rare Lacquered Ivory Hexagonal Brushpot
18th Century
Reverse-decorated with bamboo and a blossoming prunus branch extending around the faceted sides, and with two swallows in flight, all reserved against the black lacquer ground between narrow key-fret borders, the inlaid ivory base with a central reserve reverse-decorated with a crossed peach sprig and a ruyi sceptre hung with a wan emblem, all within a narrow raised outer border
56in. (13.8cm.) high

Provenance

Edward T. Chow Collection, Hong Kong

Literature

M. Beurdeley, The Chinese Collector through the Centuries, Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan, 1966, p. 242, no. 101.
Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, Oriental Ceramic Society and the British Museum, London, 1984, p. 154, no. 182.

Exhibited

London, The British Museum, Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, 24 May - 19 August 1984, no. 182.

Lot Essay

The same technique of reversing the decoration in white against a black ground can be seen on two other pieces included in the exhibition, Chinese Ivories from the Shang to the Qing, op.cit., no. 162 an ivory table screen and no. 182, a cylindrical brushpot, both decorated with figures in landscape settings.

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