A VERY FINE HUANGHUALI LOBED 'LOTUS SHAPED' BRUSHPOT, BITONG17th/18th century The vessel deftly carved with barbed sides divided into bracket lobes, the lustrous precious wood patinated to a caramel-brown tone. 17.7cm (7in) diam. Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 清十七或十八世紀 黃花梨素紋蓮形筆筒 Provenance : Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong, 10 June 1994 來源 ：香港嘉木堂，1994年6月10日 Brushpots made of precious hardwoods are usually round and plain. Lobed-shapes such as the current lot are rarer, which not only reveal the natural and lively grains of the finest type of wood, but also brings elegance to a scholar's desk, and demonstrate the consummate skill of the master carver. A related zitan lobed brushpot, 17th/18th century, is illustrated by G.Wu Bruce, The Best of the Best: The MQJ Collection of Ming Furniture , Hong Kong, 2017, p.442. See also another related zitan foliate brushpot, 17th century, illustrated by M.Flacks, Custodians of the Scholar's Way: Chinese Scholar's Objects in Precious Woods , London, 2014, p.123. pare with a related zitan lotus-shaped brushpot, 18th century, which was sold at London, 13 May 2021, lot 10. See also a related lobed huanghuali brushpot, late Ming/early Qing dynasty, from the Dr S.Y. Yip collection, which was sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong, 7 October 2015, lot 121.