Lot Essay
Cf. a similar holder sold in our New York Galleries, 3 June, 1988, lot 254.
A blue and white Octagonal brush holder painted with emblems and flowers, dating from the Jiajing period, is in the Perciaval David Foundation Collection, Illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramcs, vol. 6, fig. 138. Another, cylindrical and with Kinrande decoration, complete with fittings, formerly in the Hirota Collection, is in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated op. cit., vol.1, fig. 75
A blue and white Octagonal brush holder painted with emblems and flowers, dating from the Jiajing period, is in the Perciaval David Foundation Collection, Illustrated in The World's Great Collections, Oriental Ceramcs, vol. 6, fig. 138. Another, cylindrical and with Kinrande decoration, complete with fittings, formerly in the Hirota Collection, is in the Tokyo National Museum, illustrated op. cit., vol.1, fig. 75