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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 清乾隆 王紀常製竹雕歸舟圖筆筒
A FINELY CARVED BAMBOO ‘BOATING’ BRUSH 《王紀常製》款
POT
BY WANG JICHANG, QING DYNASTY, 來源：
QIANLONG PERIOD 香港蘇富比2004年10月31日，編號192
intricately carved with a majestic lakeshore landscape,
depicted with an elderly man and his attendant looking out
from a small open pavilion nestled in a fenced garden grown This cylindrical brushpot is signed Wang Jichang, a bamboo
with bamboo and pines towards two boating parties on the
lake, one boat with its sail raised up the mast seated with carver active in the mid-Qing dynasty and a native of Jiading,
eight figures, the other smaller fishing boat being pulled Jiangsu province. In this bucolic boating and fishing scene,
by two boys running across a small bridge, all below rocky Wang skillfully picks out elements of the motif in a range of
depths and textures. Note the variation in cuts between the
mountains and swirling clouds and above a seal mark
reading ‘Wang Jichang Zhi’, together with a rubbing mounted trees, evoking a sense of wild forest, and the carving around
on a handscroll the figures that brings them into focus as the principal actors
12.4 cm, 4⅞ in. in this narrative.
Compare a brushpot carved with a similar boating scene, but
PROVENANCE signed Shanmei, in the Hong Kong Museum of Art, illustrated
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31st October 2004, lot 192. in Ip Yee & Laurence C.S. Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving,
Part I, Hong Kong, 1978, pl. 40, together with a slightly larger
HK$ 250,000-350,000 example, pl. 67; and three brushpots sold in these rooms, the
US$ 31,900-44,600 first of slightly smaller size, 14th May 1983, lot 648, and the
second and third of larger size, 25th May 1979, lot 874, and
10th April 2006, lot 1648.

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