**AN INCISED, SIGNED IVORY BRUSHPOT

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**AN INCISED, SIGNED IVORY BRUSHPOT
18TH CENTURY

The slender cylinder with thick walls and separately carved base, finely and delicately incised with a scene of a scholar and attendant seated by a fence on a rocky ledge overlooking a lotus pond filled with large, blossoming, leafy plants, the scholar seated on a three-legged stool and the attendant holding a book, with a three-line inscription in running script and two small seals, the thin, incised lines accented with iron-red, gray and black pigment against the soft pale yellow tone of the ivory
5 5/8in. (14.3cm.) high

Lot Essay

The two seals comprise the artist Xue Huai's, hao, Zhu Chu (lao ren), or 'the old man who resides among the bamboo'. The artist, who lived during the Qing dynasty, was a native of Jiangsu, but lived in Shanyang. He specialized in calligraphy and flower painting, as well as painting on Yixing wares

A related ivory brushpot with two identical seals was included in the exhibition, Chinese Ivories from the Kwan Collection, The Art Gallery, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, July 28-October 14, 1990, Catalogue, p. 256, no. 123