A VERY RARE BAMBOO BRUSHPOT

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A VERY RARE BAMBOO BRUSHPOT
17TH CENTURY

Superbly carved from a large segment of bamboo, in high and low relief to produce the effect of depth and perspective, around the cylindrical brushpot with the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, in groups playing and listening to the qin and in scholarly discussion, well detailed in a landscape with rocks, a flowing stream, pine trees and bamboo carved in the round, the patina of rich honey tone, age cracks (one bamboo stem restored)
6 3/8 in. (16.2 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Compare the present lot with a very similar brushpot depicting the same traditional subject of the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove, from the National Palace Museum, Taibei, and listed as a national treasure, included in the exhibition in Taibei and in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Possessing the Past: Treasures from the National Palace Museum, Taipei, 1996, pl. 271.

Two other examples of closely related brushpots are published, one from the Palace Museum, Beijing, illustrated in The Art of Bamboo, p. 60; and another in the Collection of the Hong Kong Museum of Art, in Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part II, 1982, pl. 17.

(US$25,000-40,000)

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