WHITE METAL 'HERMIT' BRUSH POT QING DYNASTY, 19TH CENTURY of cylindrical form, engraved to the exterior with a hermit holding a qin instrument at the gate of a thatched house amongst large pine trees and mountainous landscape, back of the hills a wide river with sampans, above further incised with poem, signed 'Wu Shi Qian' and dated to the Ding Hai year during the Guangxu reign, corresponds to 1887 (Dimensions: 15.8cm diameter) (Qty: 1) (15.8cm diameter) Qty: (1) Footnote: Provenance: private European collection