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355 See a comparative example of a similar but smaller zitan brushpot
A huanghuali simulated-rootwood cylindrical brushpot imitating rootwood, exhibited at the Oriental Ceramic Society of Hong
Late Ming/early Qing dynasty Kong and Fung Ping Shan Museum at the University of Hong Kong (24
Naturalistically carved as a section of tree trunk, the exterior with October 1986 - 13 December 1986), illustrated in Arts from the Scholar’s
irregular raised nodes, the wood of light brown tone retaining the Studio, Hong Kong, 2011, pp.108-109, no.71. According to authors
natural coffee-coloured grain. Hugh Moss and Gerard Tsang, the natural looking gnarled and knotty
23.2cm wide. appearance of such pieces are entirely contrived, by simulating ‘highly
HK$80,000 - 120,000 stylised, simplified and abstracted naturalism, in which aspect they echo
US$10,000 - 15,000 the paintings of the literati.’
明末清初 黃花梨仿瘤大筆海
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