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AN INSCRIBED BAMBOO 'CABBAGE' BRUSH A ROCK CRYSTAL VASE, COVER AND STAND
POT BITONG MID-QING DYNASTY
SIGNED YUN QIAO, QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTRY The elongated vase is flanked on each side of the shoulder by a
mask handle with ring, surmounted by a cover with a ruyi-shaped
The slender cylindrical brush pot stands on three low feet, it is
delicately carved to one side in relief with a cabbage amongst finial, supported on a stand with four cloud-shaped feet. The base
flowers. The other side is inscribed with an adaptation of a poem of the vase is incised with a four-character Yongzheng seal mark.
by Li Dongyang and dated autumn of gengzi year (corresponding 8 ¡ in. (21.3 cm.) overall height, box
to 1780) and signed Yun Qiao, and a seal mark reading 'Deng'. HK$200,000-300,000 US$26,000-39,000
5 in. (12.7 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
HK$100,000-150,000 US$13,000-19,000 ᪺˯ᕪ ᥆ᓪἅ㤛㘢‎⡪⁅㐨⯰ۣ༄

Deng Wei, sobriquet Yun Qiao, was a renowned bamboo ≡ᄓ㛑ߴǸ㫇᫈ჺㅳǹ❨ᝧ᪪ǯ
carver in the 18th century.
Compare to an inscribed brush pot also carved by Deng
Wei with a cabbage and dated in the same manner from the
collection of Julia Y. Cheng lent to the Nelson Gallery-Atkins
Museum, Kansas City published in the exhibition catalogue
Chinese Bamboo Carving, Hong Kong, 1978, pp. 270-271, no.
68, pl. 22.

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