A Pair of Cinnabar Lacquer Brushes and Covers

MING DYNASTY, 16TH/17TH CENTURY

明剔紅山水紋筆一對
each brush and cover of even cylindrical form, and meeting at a carved keyfret border. The brushes deeply carved to a ground of undulating waves and cloud bosses with a continuous landscape scene with figures ascending bridge into lofty peaks suffuse with craggy rockery and boughs of radiating pines. The landscape continuous to the covers, where minute figures are dwarfed by towering rock formations.

Length 9 5/8 in., 24.5 cm.

Property from the Estate of Patricia Ann Black Smyth, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Sold to Benefit Berea College, Berea, Kentucky

The first example in overall very good and complete condition, with some soiling to deeper recesses. The second example showing similar soiling, the cover with a clean fracture to the cover at the site of an old restoration, free of loss, and a fracture running about the circumference of the base. Together with a fitted box.

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Ms. Wu joined the firm in 2014, after working as a specialist in the Asian Works of Art Department of an East Coast auction house. She researches, appraises, and sells Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian, and South East Asian works of art, including jades, bronzes, ceramics, paintings, armor, and furniture. Throughout her career, Ms. Wu has achieved record prices for several prominent estates and collections, including the Estate of Frank G. Mertes, Sr., Winona, Minnesota; the Chinese Painting Collection of Ms. Yuan Jiaying and Mr. Li Guoyuan, Chicago; the Estate of Hisazo Nagatani, Chicago, and the Asian Art Collection deaccessioned from the Strong Museum of Play, Rochester, New York.

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A Pair of Cinnabar Lacquer Brushes and Covers

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