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Incense or Brush Holder

1573-1620
Artist/maker unknown, Chinese
The front of this stand holds the relief figure of Gui Xing, an acolyte of the God of Literature who was widely venerated by the Chinese literati. Two scholars and a crane, a symbol of officialdom, are painted on the reverse.

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