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A BAMBOO INCENSE HOLDER DEPICTING THE THREE
LAUGHERS AT TIGER BROOK (HU XI SAN XIAO)
18th century
Illustrating a mythical meeting of the Confucian poet Tao Yuanming
(365-427), the Daoist Lu Xiujing (406-477) and the Buddhist recluse
Huiyuan (334-427) engaged in congenial conversation as they
cross a stone bridge over a water course surrounded by rocks and
vegetation; the cylindrical bamboo section deeply undercut and
polished to a soft luster, the soft wood collar and base finished in
reddish brown lacquer.
6 7/8in (17.5cm) high
US$2,000 - 3,000
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TWO BAMBOO INCENSE HOLDERS DEPICTING BEAUTIES IN
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19th century THREE SCHOLAR’S CARVED ACCESSORIES
Each of cylindrical form, deeply undercut and polished to a soft Including two carved wood scepters, each in the form of a lingzhi
luster: the larger container depicting two beauties paging through fungus branch with an undercut subsidiary twig forming part of the
a book as they sit around a rock work table under pine trees and long handle; the third a bamboo water coupe deeply hollowed as a
fantastic rocks; the smaller container showing a single pensive peach enclosed by a deeply undercut peach branch that extends
beauty seated alone at a table; the soft wood collars and bases on toward a bat on the in-curving shoulder; together with a miniature
the holders finished in dark reddish brown lacquer. cast metal ladle. [4]
7 3/8 and 7in (18.7 and 17.8cm) 17 and 16 3/8in (43 and 41.5cm) length of scepters
3 1/2in (9cm) maximum width of water coupe
US$2,000 - 3,000
US$800 - 1,200
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