Lot Essay
For another brush holder in the collection of the National Museum of Korea, Seoul, see Choi Sunu, Hanguk misul ocheunnyen 5000 Years of Korean Arts (Seoul: Gwangmyeung Chulpnsa, 1978), pl. 367.
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ANOTHER PROPERTY
A Carved Bamboo Lobed Brush Holder
(20TH CENTURY)
Details
A Carved Bamboo Lobed Brush Holder
(20th century)
Fashioned with six curved lobes that give the wide mouth and flat base the outline of a plum floret, the sides of the brush holder decorated with six felicitous panels of a bird on plum branches; carp, sun and mountains; chrysanthemums and insects; deer and pines; crane and bamboo; and heron and lotuses, each carved in low relief and stained light brown with a glossy finish, the shallow recessed backgrounds black with a lacquerlike finish, the interior applied with a thin, matte black stain
6½in. (16.5cm.) high; 7¾in. (19.7cm.) diameter
(20th century)
Fashioned with six curved lobes that give the wide mouth and flat base the outline of a plum floret, the sides of the brush holder decorated with six felicitous panels of a bird on plum branches; carp, sun and mountains; chrysanthemums and insects; deer and pines; crane and bamboo; and heron and lotuses, each carved in low relief and stained light brown with a glossy finish, the shallow recessed backgrounds black with a lacquerlike finish, the interior applied with a thin, matte black stain
6½in. (16.5cm.) high; 7¾in. (19.7cm.) diameter