A CARVED HUANGHUALI FLORIFORM "CHILONG" BRUSH POT, BITONG

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.