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.