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311 A BLUE AND ⌲Ꮴ⛆ 䱿㟞ᆞⅡ倅ธృびみ
WHITE ‘SCHOLAR’
BRUSHPOT

Qing Dynasty, Kangxi Period
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of cylindrical form, painted with a continuous Knapton Rasti Asian Art⧍侚2003䎃
riverside landscape, on a rocky outcrop
two scholars wearing o! cial’s caps and
a gesticulating monk regarding a nearby
waterfall accompanied by two young
attendants carrying a qin and provisions,
a " sherman at work in a boat below and
birds # ying above, the base centered with a
recessed medallion, coll. no. 1529.
Height 6 in., 15.2 cm

PROVENANCE
Knapton & Rasti Asian Art, London, 2003.
The subject matter represents the scholarly
theme of ‘gazing at a waterfall’ which has a
long literary and painterly history in Chinese
art. Scholars standing or seated before
waterfalls in search of wisdom or inspiration,
often with a towering pine tree and amid
forbidding mountainous peaks, was explored
by many renown artists and revisited both in
painting and carving on functional objects such
as the present piece.

$ 15,000-20,000

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