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19TH CENTURY
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A GROUP OF THREE SCHOLAR’S OBJECTS
19TH CENTURY
The group includes a wooden hu tablet, of gentle curved and tapering form; a bamboo-form fruitwood fly whisk, the horsehair attached with an ornate weave; and a lacquered fir cone, 20th century, deep reddish-brown in color, and used as a scholar’s handling object.
Hu tablet: 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) long; fly whisk: 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) long; fir cone: 5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide
19TH CENTURY
The group includes a wooden hu tablet, of gentle curved and tapering form; a bamboo-form fruitwood fly whisk, the horsehair attached with an ornate weave; and a lacquered fir cone, 20th century, deep reddish-brown in color, and used as a scholar’s handling object.
Hu tablet: 17 7/8 in. (45.4 cm.) long; fly whisk: 10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) long; fir cone: 5 in. (12.7 cm.) wide
Provenance
Hu tablet: Gerard Hawthorn, London.
Fly whisk: Kagedo Gallery, Orcas, Washington.
Fir cone: Nicholas Grindley, London.
Fly whisk: Kagedo Gallery, Orcas, Washington.
Fir cone: Nicholas Grindley, London.
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