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THE HOSOKAWA FAMILY COLLECTION
A CARVED BAMBOO WRIST REST
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
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A CARVED BAMBOO WRIST REST
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The convex side is finely carved in shallow relief reserving the skin of the bamboo with a scholar seated under a pavilion by the riverside with another scholar in the foreground beside a fence, below a dated inscription reading renzi zhi xiari, ‘summer days in the cyclical renzi year’, followed by the signature of Xihuang, and a two-character square seal reading Zhang shi.
7 15⁄16 in. (20.2 cm.) long, Japanese wood box
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The convex side is finely carved in shallow relief reserving the skin of the bamboo with a scholar seated under a pavilion by the riverside with another scholar in the foreground beside a fence, below a dated inscription reading renzi zhi xiari, ‘summer days in the cyclical renzi year’, followed by the signature of Xihuang, and a two-character square seal reading Zhang shi.
7 15⁄16 in. (20.2 cm.) long, Japanese wood box
Literature
Hosokawa Morisada, Ittokutoku, 1982, no. 43
Exhibited
Kumamoto Prefectural Museum of Art, Kumamoto, Daijuikkai Eisei Bunko ten, Min Shin no Bijutsu to Kougei, 12 September – 18 October 1981, Catalogue no.96-2
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. 70
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. 70
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