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A FINELY CARVED CINNABAR Carved lacquer brushpots are rare and examples and Barbara Ford, East Asian Lacquer: The
LACQUER BRUSHPOT showing guests arriving for an elegant gathering Florence and Herbert Irving Collection, New
QING DYNASTY, QIANLONG - are rarer still. More typically, these brush holders York, 1991, cat. no. 44. Another example, but of
JIAQING PERIOD depict scholars already assembled and actively carved polychrome lacquer, sold in our Hong
engaged in art appreciation and other leisure Kong rooms, 7th October 2010, lot 2173. A similar
of slightly tapered cylindrical form, the exterior activities together. example was sold in these rooms 15th/16th
superbly carved in multiple levels of relief with a September 2015, Lot 238.
continuous scene of a scholarly gathering with An intricately carved lacquer brushpot on this
one literatus already painting to the sounds of theme from the Qing court collection, now in the $ 50,000-70,000
the qin as one friend watches and three more Palace Museum, Beijing, is illustrated in Jiufang
approach with their attendants, the garden Li, The Complete Collection of Treasures of the
setting with pine, bamboo, wutong trees, Palace Museum: Lacquer Wares of the Qing
rocks, and pavilions amid a lake and mountain Dynasty, Hong Kong, 2006, pl. 42. Compare
landscape, diaper and other incised patterns another in the collection of The Metropolitan
articulating each element, the interior and base Museum of Art, illustrated in James C. Y. Watt
lacquered in black
Height 5⅛ in., 13 cm
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