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~1213 A CARVED HUANGHUALI FLORIFORM “CHILONG” BRUSH POT, BITONG
CHINA, 17TH CENTURY

The sides well carved with large lotus petals, each enclosing a sinuous chilong confronting a fowering
prunus or lotus branch
6√ in. (17.5 cm.) high
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE
Eastern Pacifc Co., Hong Kong, 1986.
The Irving Collection, no. 998.
Compare a huanghuali brush pot of similar form, carved as a fowering lotus blossom and with fowering
branches on the sides, originally in the collection of Robert H. Ellsworth, 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.
十七世紀 黃花梨雕螭龍蓮紋筆筒

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