Description
Chinese Hardwood Brushwasher, 19th/early 20th c., carved as curled lotus leaf surmounted by a spider and lizard, h. 1 1/4 in., w. 9 in., d. 6 3/4 in . Provenance: American missionary Whitefield Walton Brockman (1875-1939), Professor at Soochow University (1904-1908 and 1916-c. 1920) and organizer of the Soochow Y.M.C.A....