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RARE POT A PINCEAUX EN BAMBOU
CHINE, DYNASTIE QING, XVIIIEME SIECLE
Il est fnement sculpté en relief d'une scène tirée du Lanting Xu
(Préface des poèmes du pavillon de l'orchidée) fgurant des lettrés
et des serviteurs dans un paysage montagneux. Le revers est incisé
d'une longue inscription calligraphique du texte Lan ting xu ji signé
Yuqiao Shanren ; le col et le pied montés en hongmu.
Hauteur: 17,5 cm. (6√ in.)
€8,000-12,000 US$8,900-13,000
£7,000-10,000

The current brush pot presents the scene of 'A Literary Gathering at
the Orchid Pavilion', the Lanting Xu, a collection of poems composed
at the Orchid Pavilion by Wang Xizhi. This latter scene refers to Wang
Xizhi, the famous Eastern Jin dynasty calligrapher who is known as
the 'Sage of Calligraphy', and his forty-one companions composing
a collection of thirty-seven poems on the 3rd of March, the ninth
year of Yonghe (corresponding to AD 353), while on an outing in the
countryside.
Yunqiao Shanren, also called Deng Wei, was a native of Jiading in
Jiangsu province and was active during the 18th century. He is known
as one of the most revered bamboo carvers of the Qianlong period.
See a brushpot, also carved by Deng Wei, sold in Christie's, Hong
Kong, 30 May 2006, lot 1492 and another one sold in Christie's New
York, 19 September 2007, lot 33.
A RARE AND FINELY CARVED INSCRIBED BAMBOO BRUSH POT
CHINA, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
清十八世紀 雲樵山人款竹雕蘭亭序筆筒

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