AN SUPERBLY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT

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AN SUPERBLY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY 17TH/18TH 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 scholars and their attendants, each of whom has a different facial expression, gathered in groups and depicted in various pursuits to include painting, playing music instrument, and in scholarly discussion, well-detailed in a continuous landscape with craggy mountains and pine trees and bamboo grove, the patina of rich honey tone, age cracks
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm.) high, box

拍品专文

Compare with a very similar brushpot dated to the Kangxi period, depicting a scene of the 'Western Garden', included in the exhibition, Ming and Qing Bamboo, the University of Hong Kong, 2000, and illustrated in the Catalogue, p. 198, pl. 26. According to the author, the theme is based on a story written by Wang Shen, son-in-law of a Northern Song emperor, on the subject of a literati gathering in a certain 'Western Garden', ibid., p. 198.