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PROPERTY FROM AN ASIAN COLLECTION
AN AMBER-GLAZED BRUSHPOT, BITONG
YU ZHONGKUN ZHI FOUR-CHARACTER MOLDED SEAL MARK, 19TH CENTURY
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AN AMBER-GLAZED BRUSHPOT, BITONG
Yu Zhongkun zhi four-character molded seal mark, 19th century
Made in imitation of a bamboo brushpot, the sides finely molded and carved in high relief with a pair of cranes strutting beside a stand of four overlapping pine trees growing amidst rocks and lingzhi fungus, the flat rim stippled, covered inside and out and on the base with a glaze of ochre color, the eyes of the cranes glazed black
6¼in. (16cm.) high, stand, box
Yu Zhongkun zhi four-character molded seal mark, 19th century
Made in imitation of a bamboo brushpot, the sides finely molded and carved in high relief with a pair of cranes strutting beside a stand of four overlapping pine trees growing amidst rocks and lingzhi fungus, the flat rim stippled, covered inside and out and on the base with a glaze of ochre color, the eyes of the cranes glazed black
6¼in. (16cm.) high, stand, box
Provenance
Edward T. Chow Collection, no. 2604.