A CARVED AND INSCRIBED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT

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A CARVED AND INSCRIBED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY, 18TH/19TH CENTURY

Finely carved with a branch of flowering poeny, beside branches of magnolia and prunus, beneath a couplet and followed by a dedicatory inscription including a Jiazi cyclical date
5 1/2 in. (14 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

来源

A Japanese collector

拍品专文

Yang Guonian, to whom the carving is dedicated, is unknown although the couplet is an excerpt from the poem by Guo Xi (1130-1300). It may be translated as:
'No words can describe my pleasure at the opened window;
I never knew that grass and trees can be this fragrant.'