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PROPERTY FROM THE HOSOKAWA FAMILY COLLECTION
A CARVED BAMBOO ROOT ‘PINE’ WATER POT
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
Details
A CARVED BAMBOO ROOT ‘PINE’ WATER POT
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The water pot is finely carved with gnarled pine branches bearing pine needle clusters growing from below and beside an irregularly-shaped bowl with one branch extending to its interior. The underside is carved reserving the nodules of the bamboo root. Together with a Japanese silver metal spoon.
3 in. (7.5 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The water pot is finely carved with gnarled pine branches bearing pine needle clusters growing from below and beside an irregularly-shaped bowl with one branch extending to its interior. The underside is carved reserving the nodules of the bamboo root. Together with a Japanese silver metal spoon.
3 in. (7.5 cm.) wide, Japanese wood box
Literature
Hosokawa Morisada, Ittokutoku, 1982, no. 47
Exhibited
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Kōga na bunjin no sekai : Min Shin no kaiga to shoseki bunbōgu I (The Exhibition of Hosokawa Morisada Collection), 9 October-8 November 1992, catalogue no.104
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