A pair of Chinese pierced bronze brush pots, late Ming/early Qing Dynasty, 17th century, each one decorated with an openwork design of dragons amongst clouds, a key-fret border below the rounded mouth and a band of breaking waves above the foot rim, 10.4 cm high, 8.4 cm diameter. Reference: see Sotheby's London 14/5/2014 lot 329 for a very similar example (6,250GBP). Provenance: Acquired in the 1980s