Description: A POLYCHROME BRUSHWASHER
China, 20th century
7,5 x 19 cm
Circular foot, the rounded walls of the flattened globular body decorated with a composition of two chilong dragons amidst lingzhi funguses framed by a ruyi heads frieze toward the mouth and a band with stylized leaves near the base, the interior with two dragons and lingzhi funguses, apocryphal six characters Daoguang mark to the centre of the base.
Provenance: ambassador Francesco Rausi.