AN INSCRIBED BAMBOO 'CABBAGE' BRUSH POT BITONG

SIGNED YUN QIAO, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY

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AN INSCRIBED BAMBOO 'CABBAGE' BRUSH POT BITONG
SIGNED YUN QIAO, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
The slender cylindrical brush pot stands on three low feet, it is delicately carved to one side in relief with a cabbage amongst flowers. The other side is inscribed with an adaptation of the poem by Li Dongyang and dated autumn of gengzi year (corresponding to 1780) and signed Yun Qiao, and a seal mark reading 'Deng'.
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box

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Lot Essay

Deng Wei, sobriquet Yun Qiao, was a reknowned bamboo carver in the 18th century.

Compare to an inscribed brush pot also carved by Deng Wei with a cabbage and dated in the same manner from the collection of Julia Y. Cheng lent to the Nelson Gallery-Atkins Museum, Kansas City published in the exhibition catalogue Chinese Bamboo Carving, Hong Kong, 1978, pp. 270-271, no. 68, pl. 22.

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