Auction | China Guardian (HK) Auctions Co., Ltd.
2019 Autumn Auctions
Classic Furniture from the Hung Collection

992
Huanghuali Brushpot in flower shape

Diam:19.7 cm, Height: 20.3 cm (Diam7 3/4 in; Height: 8 in.)

出版:《洪氏所藏木器百圖》(Chinese Furniture: One Hundred and Three Examples from the Mimi and Raymond Hung Collection),圖95,Privately Published•New York•1996,第233頁。
《日升月騰 1368-1644 從敏求精舍藏品看明代》圖193,香港歷史博物館編制,第252頁。
Brushpots are exceedingly difficult to date and many examples of foliate form have been recarved from plain, circular brushpots. When recarving has occurred, the walls of the brushpot become particularly thin. Such is not the case with this generously proportioned example, which has a wide, overhanging rim and six-lobed, foliate shape that echoes the undulating pattern of the beautifully figured huang hua-li grain. The shape of the projecting rim, which is thumb molded on its upper surface, is reiterated in the convex, molded outer edge of the base. The brushpot is slightly elevated on low bracket feet, a detail that, together with its foliate shape, adds a subtle note of feminine elegance to a scholarly object.
—Robert H. Ellsworth (Chinese Funiture: The Hung Collection)

Price estimate:
HKD: 380,000 - 580,000
USD: 48,500 - 74,000

Auction Result:
HKD: 896,800

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