A RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH HANDLE

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A RARE MING BLUE AND WHITE BRUSH HANDLE
WANLI SIX-CHARACTER MARK IN UNDERGLAZE BLUE IN A LINE AND OF THE PERIOD
The slender cylindrical handle entwined by a five-clawed dragon leaping amidst flower sprigs in pursuit of a flaming pearl above a band of waves, with a wave border below and a border enclosing the nianhao above, the circular tip decorated with a flowerhead, all in an underglaze blue of bright inky tone, the bristles set into a bulbous wood mount decorated in silver wire inlay
Handle 6¾in. (17.1cm.) long, box

展覽

Hong Kong, The Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong Kong and the Fung Ping Shan Museum, University of Hong Kong, October 24 - December 13, 1986, no. 205

拍品專文

Compare the larger blue and white Wanli brush handle from The Fogg Art Museum included in the exhibition, The Arts of the Ming Dynasty, The Detroit Institute of Art, 1952, Catalogue, no. 176

Previously sold in our Hong Kong rooms, January 17, 1989, lot 603