Live Auction 17837Lacquer, Jade, Bronze, Ink: The Irving Collection Day Sale
A CARVED HUANGHUALI FLORIFORM "CHILONG" BRUSH POT, BITONG
Lot 1213 THE FLORENCE AND HERBERT IRVING COLLECTION

A CARVED HUANGHUALI FLORIFORM "CHILONG" BRUSH POT, BITONG

CHINA, 17TH CENTURY

Closed21 March 2019

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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 flowering prunus or lotus branch
6 7/8 in. (17.5 cm.) high

Eastern Pacific Co., Hong Kong, 1986.
The Irving Collection, no. 998.

Specialist note

Compare a 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, 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.