A BLUE AND WHITE ‘XU XUN QUELLING THE GHOST’ BRUSH POT

Lot 1306
29.11.2024 03:30UTC +00:00
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HKD 630 000
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Lot 1306 | A BLUE AND WHITE ‘XU XUN QUELLING THE GHOST’ BRUSH POT
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HKD 500 000 – 800 000
A BLUE AND WHITE ‘XU XUN QUELLING THE GHOST’ BRUSH POT
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The cylindrical brush pot is painted with a lively battle scene, depicting numerous demons in a river battling ghost hunters in a continuous landscape; all set amongst trees and rocks.
8 ¼ in. (20. 5 cm.) diam., box




Provenance

Max Müller (1867-1908), German Consul to Shanghai, and later Wuhan, during the late Qing period, who acquired the present lot in Shanghai around 1905-1908
By descent to Irmgard Müller-Doertenback (1909-2011)
Acquired by the present family prior to 1996
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