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A SMALL BAMBOO ‘SCHOLAR UNDER PINE’ CARVING
SIGNED SHEN JIAN, QING DYNASTY, 17TH CENTURY
The material is delicately carved in openwork as a reclining bearded scholar with an
attendant holding a wine ewer beside a wine jar, all below a towering pine tree amongst
pierced rocks. Carved to one recess of the rock with a small seal mark reading ‘Shen Jian’.
3 ¿ in. (8 cm.) wide, box
HK$120,000-150,000 US$16,000-19,000
Shen Jian (Shen Liangzhi) was a notable late 17th century bamboo carver, and was the nephew
to Shen Dasheng who was himself famous in the late Ming period. For a wrist rest carved
by Shen Jian, see Ip Yee and Laurence C.S. Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving Part I, Hong Kong
Museum of Art, pp. 216-217.
The production of these intricately carved miniature landscapes began in the Ming dynasty and
remains popular to the present day. Examples of 17th century and 20th century versions are
illustrated in the same volume, see nos. 19, 197 and 198.

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