Ming - Yuxi - Glaze X Foil Gilding ‘敦煌’ shaving brush handle

‘Yuxi/ 玉玺’ shaving brush handle

The Ming imperial seal: square, upright, grounded. A slanted shoulder, a tiered base. No extraneous line anywhere across the form — and the moment it presses down, it is authority.

This is the simplest of the five: a slanted shoulder, a straight body, a flat-cut foot. No curves, no protrusions, no ridges. Nothing.

And yet nothing is missing.

Level horizontals, plumb verticals. The heavens round, the earth square. Extreme restraint buys you a return to simplicity — restraint itself becomes the aesthetic.

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