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Lot 1024
A Chinese Carved Zitan Brush Pot
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
Qing dynasty (1644-1911), carved from natural form zitan wood with nubby wood knots to exterior, with wood plug to bottom to balance the wood's expansion and contraction.

4 3/8 x 4 1/8 x 3 5/8 in.

Private Collection, Raleigh, North Carolina

Peking Arts & Antiques, San Francisco

A tight stress crack to wood from rim to foot; some losses and nicks around the interior rim.