A CARVED HARDWOOD LIBATION CUP

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A CARVED HARDWOOD LIBATION CUP
18TH CENTURY

Carved around the base with scholars on either side of a table before a house nestled beneath pine trees with storage jars in a row, further trees, rocky cliffs, with an incised inscription to the reverse (minor repair)
3 1/2 in. (9 cm.) high

拍品專文

The inscription reads: Zhang Xu san bei cao sheng chuan, may be translated as 'The sacred grass (script) flows after three cups'. Zhang Xu is a famous Tang dynasty grass script calligrapher.

(US$5,000-8,000)