17TH CENTURY

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A LARGE CARVED HUANGHUALI FLORIFORM 'CHILONG' BRUSH POT
17TH CENTURY
Raised on three short tab feet, the brush pot is carved on the exterior with four floriform panels, each enclosing a chilong and ruyi, three with a floral branch and one with bamboo.
8 3⁄4 (22.3 cm.) high

Provenance

M & C Gallery, Hong Kong, 1997.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

Compare a smaller huanghuali brush pot of similar form, carved as a flowering lotus blossom and with flowering branches on the sides, originally in the collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, and now at Yale University Art Museum, illustrated by Mary Gardiner Neill, The Communion of Scholars: Chinese Art at Yale, China Institute, New York, 1982, p. 133, no. 59 b. Another related floriform ‘chilong’ brush pot was sold at Christie’s New York, The Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, 21 March 2019, lot 1213.

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