17TH CENTURY

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AN UNUSUAL DEHUA PIERCED BRUSH HOLDER
17TH CENTURY
The cylindrical sides have an openwork design of leafy peony scroll bearing three blossoms with incised details, which is set between thumb-grooved borders above and below. The interior and exterior are covered with a glaze of milk-white tone.
4 3/8 in. (11 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

A similar brush holder, dated c. 1640, is illustrated in the exhibition catalogue, Blanc de Chine, S Marchant & Son, London, June 1994, p. 68, no. 105. Another is illustrated in the memorial exhibition catalogue, The Charles B. Hoyt Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 1952, p. 106, no. 420. See, also, the similar example, dated to the Kangxi period, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, illustrated by W.E. Cox, The Book of Pottery and Porcelain, vol. I, New York, 1944, p. 535, fig. 771.

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