A SILVER-WIRE INLAID IRON BRUSHPOT, BITONGQianlong seal mark The cylindrical vessel decorated around the exterior with silver wire showing a spotted deer with antlers within a shaped cartouche, another shaped cartouche enclosing a a Buddhist lion and peonies, all surrounded by a diaper-pattern ground, all between a key-fret border at the mouth rim and triangle-pattern border at the foot. 13.5cm (5 1/4in) high. Please note this Lot is to be sold at No Reserve. 本拍品不設底價 錯銀瑞獸紋鉄筆筒 「大清乾隆年製」底款 Provenance : Jan van Beers, London, 30 October 2012 來源 ：倫敦古董商 Jan van Beers，2012年10月30日 pare with a similar seal mark on an iron ruyi sceptre, Qianlong, illustrated by Sydney L. Moss Ltd., The Second Bronze Age: Later Chinese Metalwork , London, 1991, no.38, where the author notes that the iron ruyi sceptre 'relates to the best of the iron damascened brushpots with six-character Ch'ien-lung marks' such as the present lot. See also a related silver-wire inlaid iron brushpot, 18th century, from the Florence and Herbert Irving collection, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.2015.500.6.27).