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Lot Essay
Previously sold in these Rooms, 28 April 2003, lot 537.
Compare with examples decorated in similar style, the first is a tool vase of similar size (11.8 cm high) inlaid to depict flowering prunus, illustrated in Zitan - The Most Noble Hardwood, Taipei, 1996, p. 170; designed with mixed flowers, illustrated in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 290, no. 235; and the large zitan brushpot sold in these Rooms, 30 October 2001, lot 534.
Compare with examples decorated in similar style, the first is a tool vase of similar size (11.8 cm high) inlaid to depict flowering prunus, illustrated in Zitan - The Most Noble Hardwood, Taipei, 1996, p. 170; designed with mixed flowers, illustrated in Bamboo, Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum, Commercial Press, Hong Kong, 2002, p. 290, no. 235; and the large zitan brushpot sold in these Rooms, 30 October 2001, lot 534.