Two Scholar's Articles

17TH/18TH CENTURY

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Two Scholar's Articles
17th/18th Century
One a compressed globular bamboo brushwasher; the other a small inkstone with fitted bamboo box, the inkstone carved on top at one end with a bat emerging from the clouds carved around the sides and base, also inscribed on one side with a four-character inscription, Yan han yun mo, the cover of the box carved as a ruyi head and on top with a lingzhi sprig, the interior covered in blackish-brown lacquer
Brushwasher 3.5/8in. (9.2cm.) diam.; inkstone 36in. (7.7cm.) long, box 3in. (8.9cm.) long (3)

Lot Essay

The inscription on the inkstone refers to grinding the surface of the inkstone and dipping the brush in the ink.

Compare the similar, but smaller (2in.), bamboo brushwasher included in the Spink & Son exhibition, Bamboo and Wood Carvings of China and the East, 14 - 29 November 1979, no. 216.

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