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A CARVED BAMBOO ‘FISHERMAN’ A CARVED BAMBOO ‘THREE A CARVED BAMBOO ‘SCHOLAR’
WRISTREST, SIGNED HU CHEN HORSES’ WRISTREST, WRISTREST
QING DYNASTY SIGNED LIN JIEHOU QING DYNASTY, 17TH / 18TH
20TH CENTURY CENTURY
of arched rectangular form, carved in low-relief to
the top with a sherman shing by water, below of arched rectangular form, carved to the top of convex rectangular form, carved to the top
a gnarled overhanging pine tree growing from a with three horses frolicking in a landscape, in relief with a scholar playing a qin in a walled
craggy cli , inscribed with six characters reading accompanied by an inscription reading yumi garden, accompanied by an attendant standing
renxu qiu Hu Chen zuo (made by Hu Chen in the qianliju xianyou yanzhongjing (one needs to have beside a gnarled pine tree and banana, the
autumn of renxu year), the surface patinated to a the eye before nding a good horse), followed surface patinated to a warm reddish-brown color
warm reddish-brown color by another inscription xinwei xia siyue Wujun Length 6¾ in., 17 cm
Length 8⅝ in., 22 cm Peng Shounian zuo (painted by Peng Shounian
of Wujun in the summer, on the fourth month of $ 8,000-12,000
$ 5,000-7,000 xinwei year), the lower left with two seals, one
reading Lingyingxuan cang (collected by the
Studio of Shadow Forest), the other reading Lin
Jiehou kan (carved by Lin Jiehou), the bamboo
patinated to a golden-brown color
Length 11¾ in., 30 cm

Lin Zhaolu (1887-1966), zi Jiehou, a native of
Suzhou, Jiangsu province, was a renowned
bamboo and seal carver.

$ 8,000-12,000

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