A RARE CARVED BAMBOO BRUSH MARK AND PERIOD OF WANLI

of cylindrical form, finely carved through the rich golden brown surface to the paler ground beneath with two songbirds perched above pierced rocks on branches of flowering camellias and further birds and camellias on the cap, the ends fitted with brass and the cap mounted with a silver flange, the hollow handle inscribed with a six-character reign mark carved in relief within a recessed upright panel