A GROUP OF THREE BAMBOO WRIST-RESTS AND A ZITAN FAN

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A GROUP OF THREE BAMBOO WRIST-RESTS AND A ZITAN FAN

The first wrist-rest and the hardwood fan, delicately carved and incised with gilt inscriptions, signed Wu Hufan and Xiya; the second wrist-rest of square shape carved with archaistic text beside a further incised inscription, followed by a signature Feng Liyuan; the last of long thin rectangular shape, lightly incised with birds and trees below an inscription
Longest 10 5/8 in. (27 cm.) long (4)

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Previously sold in these Rooms, 3 November 1996, lot 866.

Wu Hufan (1894-1968) was an influential early 20th century artist, cf. Zhongguo meishu jiarenming cidian, Shanghai renmin meishu chubanshe, 2003, p. 301. Xiya is identified as the sobriquet for Jin Shaofang who was Wu Hufan's contemporary, and an accomplished bamboo carver, whose work offered in the present sale as lot 1302 is also from the same Dexinshuwu Collection.

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