Blue and white porcelain scholar's set in the early Ming style, China The porcelain brush and ink stick pot, in the shape of a hollow drum, has a slightly domed top with four circular openings for brushes and possibly for pigment cups, and a rectangular opening for an ink stick. It is decorated in shades of underglaze blue with geese in flight and clouds. The heel is partially unglazed, with a glazed circle in the center decorated with two concentric circles in underglaze blue. Height: 10 cm; diameter: 13 cm