EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY

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A FINELY CARVED BAMBOO ROOT 'PINE' WATER POT
EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The water pot is finely carved with gnarled pine branches bearing pine needle clusters growing from below and beside an irregularly-shaped bowl, one branch extending to its interior. The underside is carved reserving the nodules of the bamboo root.
4 5/8 in. (11.8 cm.) long, box

Provenance

M & C Gallery, Hong Kong, 1992

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Lot Essay

Compare to a bamboo water pot of similar form but with prunus branches instead of pine, in the National Palace Museum Collection, illustrated in Jiangxin yu xiangong: Ming Qing diaoke zhan-zhumu guohe pian, Taipei, 2014, pl. 9, which is dated to the early Qing period.

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