A PORCELAIN FAUX BAMBOO JARDINIERE

18TH CENTURY

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A PORCELAIN FAUX BAMBOO JARDINIERE
18TH CENTURY
The exterior with multi-lobbed sides cleverly simulating thin vertical strips of spotted bamboo, the surface picked out in sepia on the lemon- yellow-ground, the interior plain
23½in. (59.7cm.) diam.

拍品專文

Commonly known as "the friend of China," the Spotted Bamboo is said to be marked with the tears of the two consorts of the Emperor Shun as they wept over his tomb.

See C.A.S. Williams, Chinese Symbolism and Art Motifs, Tokyo,1974, p.33.