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AN INSCRIBED SILVER-INLAID AND
EMBELLISHED ZITAN BRUSH POT
QING DYNASTY (1644-1911)
The brush pot is delicately embellished in wood, mother-of-pearl,
and agates depicting prunus and bamboo next to a rock formation,
the other side is decorated with a Qianlong imperial poem eulogising
prunus in silver inlays.
3æ in. (9.5 cm.) high, box
HK$60,000-100,000 US$7,700-13,000
The poem inscribed on the brush pot is recorded in Qing Gaozong yuzhi
shiwen quanji, Compilation of Imperial Poems, vol. 4, juan 3 (fig. 1).
清 紫檀百寶嵌錯銀絲臘梅御製詩圖筆筒
銘文「臘梅野種到春開，磬口黃春傍水。折取一枝膽缾供，相觀都不負斯來」
出自乾隆御製詩「臘梅」，收錄於《清高宗御製詩四集》卷三（圖一）。
fig.1
圖一
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