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Lot Essay
Wu Zhifan was a late 17th century artist from the Jiading district of Jiangsu. For a brushpot by Wu Zhifan in the Palace Museum in Beijing, see Fang Jing Pei, Treasures of the Chinese Scholar, 1997, ill. 4.
Details
A bamboo brushpot, bitong
Well carved in relief with a pensive scholar seated beneath a pine tree in a rocky landscape, to the right a young attendant preparing food beside a table with a teapot, censer and book, the reverse with tall rocks, an inscription to the side in running script reading Wu Zhifan zhi ('Made by Wu Zhifan')
14 cm. high, 8.3 cm. diam.
Well carved in relief with a pensive scholar seated beneath a pine tree in a rocky landscape, to the right a young attendant preparing food beside a table with a teapot, censer and book, the reverse with tall rocks, an inscription to the side in running script reading Wu Zhifan zhi ('Made by Wu Zhifan')
14 cm. high, 8.3 cm. diam.
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