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A BAMBOO ‘SEVEN SCHOLARS OF THE BAMBOO AN EMBELLISHED ‘HUANGHUALI’ BOX AND twice in our Hong Kong rooms: 19th November 1984, lot
GROVE’ PARFUMIER COVER 99, and 8th April 2011, lot 3311. The carving quality and
QING DYNASTY QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH CENTURY compositional style is also comparable to an inlaid zitan table
screen, brushpot, and box and cover attributed to the early
of tall cylindrical form, pierced with two openwork vignettes, of rectangular form, the cover inlaid with a gnarled prunus and mid-Qing dynasty from the Qing Court Collection, now
one with five scholars conversing and drinking tea, the other branch sprouting from a rock and bamboo outcrop in the in the Palace Museum, Beijing, published in The Complete
depicting two scholars seated at a table enjoying the qin with upper left corner and sprawling across the composition, Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Bamboo,
an attendant nearby, all within a secluded bamboo grove the branch comprised of stained wood and issuing mother- Wood, Ivory and Rhinoceros Horn Carvings, Hong Kong,
surrounded by craggy rockwork and swirling cloud wisps, the of-pearl blossoms and carnelian buds, the bamboo with 2002, pls 229, 238, and 240, respectively. See also a related
surface patinated to a warm caramel tone mother-of-pearl stalks bearing bone leaves, all above various inlaid huanghuali ‘prunus’ brushpot attributed to the Kangxi
Height 9 in., 22.9 cm hardstone ‘boulders’ scattered along the ground and a period sold at Christie’s Hong Kong, 27th November 2005,
soapstone lingzhi in the lower corner, mother-of-pearl and lot 1485. For a Ming dynasty precursor to the present box,
PROVENANCE hardstone butterflies soaring above, the inner tray and box see one by Sun Kehong (1533-1611) inlaid with a flowering
Sydney L. Moss Ltd., London. unadorned (3) prunus tree and a poem, published in Elegantly Made: Art for
Height 4 in., 10.2 cm; Width 10⅝ in., 27 cm; Depth 6½ in., the Chinese Literati, J.J. Lally & Co., New York, March 2020,
$ 4,000-6,000 16.5 cm cat. no. 7.

PROVENANCE ◉ $ 40,000-60,000
清 竹雕鏤空竹林七賢圖香筒
J.J. Lally & Co., New York, 22nd September 1994.
來源： Zitan and huanghuali scholar’s objects embellished with 清十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨嵌寶花蝶圖蓋盒
Sydney L. Moss Ltd.，倫敦 mother-of-pearl and hardstone motifs came into vogue in
the late Ming dynasty and continued to enjoy popularity in 來源：
the subsequent Qing period. The present box has a nearly 藍理捷，紐約，1994年9月22日
identical composition, and the same three-dimensional
carving to the prunus blossoms, as a box attributed to the
18th century formerly in collection of Dr. Ip Yee, and sold
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A RECTANGULAR ‘ZITAN’ STAND
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the rectangular top a single floating panel set within a frame
of standard mortise and tenon construction over a recessed
waist and convex beaded-edge plain apron, all raised on four
square-sectioned incurved legs terminating in inward-facing
hoof feet
Height 4 in., 10 cm; Width 13⅝ in., 34.7 cm; Depth 8⅛ in.,
20.7 cm
PROVENANCE
121 Grace Wu Bruce, Hong Kong.

$ 5,000-7,000

清十八世紀 紫檀有束腰鼓腿長方形座
來源：
嘉木堂，香港

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