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(inscriptions) A CARVED BAMBOO BRUSH POT PROVENANCE
18TH CENTURY
Brush pot:
The brush pot is carved in high relief on one Sydney L. Moss Ltd., 1984.
side with a sage seated on a fur mat beside Nicholas Grindley, London, 1998.
a basket flled with lingzhi, a double gourd Private collection, New York.
and other plants, as he looks up at a goose
in fight. A four-line inscription referring EXHIBITED
to the scene is carved in cursive script on
the other side, followed by a signature, Brush pot:
Weishao. Together with a bamboo wrist rest, Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1989-1998.
19th century, carved with a bamboo branch TL. 1989.147.6.
and leaves, a poetic inscription commenting
on various leisurely pursuits, followed by a LITERATURE
signature, Yike, and two seals, one reading
Yike, and the other illegible. Brush pot:
S. Moss, Emperor, Scholar, Artisan, Monk: The
5æ in. (14.6 cm.) high (2) Creative Personality in Chinese Works of Art,
London, 1984, pp.158-59, no. 42.
$8,000-12,000 N. Grindley, Chinese Scholar’s Objects from a
private New York collection and others, London,
1998, no. 10.

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