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A ‘Shoulao and deer’ bamboo brushpot, bitong
17th century, Yuanzhi seal mark
The rich and glossy wood carved as a knotted pine trunk issuing two
needled branches and supporting a figure of the God of Longevity
leaning on a gnarled staff and grasping a ripe peach while a boy
walks beside him holding another peach and a spotted deer stands
nearby, wood stand.
11cm (4¼in) high (2).
£4,000 - 6,000
HK$50,000 - 75,000 CNY39,000 - 59,000
十七世紀 竹雕壽佬童子鹿紋杯 「元之」篆書刻款
Provenance: acquired from Spink & Son Ltd., London, on 15th May
1989, included in the catalogue The Minor Arts of China IV, 1989,
no.22
A European private collection
來源：1989年5月15日購於倫敦Spink & Son Ltd.，並著錄於《The
Minor Arts of China IV》圖錄，1989年，編號22
歐洲私人收藏
The name Yuanzhi is recorded as the pen name of Shen Dasheng,
a bamboo carver active in the late Ming period; see Ip Yee and
L.C.S.Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part II, Hong Kong Museum of
Art, 1978, p.103.

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