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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI XING' BRUSH STAND Wanli image 1
A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI XING' BRUSH STAND Wanli image 2
Lot 39*

A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI XING' BRUSH STAND
Wanli

3 November 2022, 10:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

Sold for £10,200 inc. premium

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A RARE BLUE AND WHITE 'KUI XING' BRUSH STAND

Wanli
Finely moulded as a standing screen applied with a figure of Kui Xing riding a cloud, his scarves billowing in the wind and clad in deer-skin, the screen decorated in cobalt-blue with phoenix, the north-star constellation, and a dou measure, behind the screen a container with later liner, painted with a pheasant above floral sprays, the screen with a roundel containing a leaping carp. 16cm (6 1/4in) high.

Footnotes

明萬曆 青花魁星筆插

Provenance: Sotheby's London (according to S.Marsh, Brushpots: A Collector's View, Hong Kong, 2020, p.28)

Published and Illustrated: S.Marsh, Brushpots: A Collector's View, Hong Kong, 2020, p.29

來源:倫敦蘇富比(據S.Marsh於《Brushpots: A Collector's View》,香港,2020,頁28之記述)

錄著:S.Marsh,《Brushpots: A Collector's View》,香港,2020,頁29.

On the reverse of the screen is Kui Xing, the God of Examinations worshipped by scholar-officials and candidates in the Imperial Examinations. For more infomation on Kui Xing see the footnote to Lot 3 in this catalogue.

See a similar blue and white brush stand, Wanli, illustrated by John da Silva, 'Three Types of Chinese Brush Stand', Oriental Art, vol.XXIV, no.3, autumn 1978, p.327, figs.3-5.

Compare also with a related blue and white 'Kui Xing' table screen, Ming dynasty 16th century, which was sold at Sotheby's London, 4 November 2021, lot 347.

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