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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT COLLECTION 清十八世紀
A CARVED AND INSCRIBED BAMBOO 潘西鳳款竹雕題〈送春〉風雨
BRUSH POT
BY PAN XIFENG, QING DYNASTY, 漁歸圖筆筒
18TH CENTURY
來源：
of cylindrical form, carved with an old 香港蘇富比2004年10月31日，編號186
barefooted fisherman hunched beneath an
umbrella beside a boy holding a fish suspended 唐高駢：〈送春〉
on a hook, both beneath two willow trees 水淺魚爭躍，花深鳥競啼。
whipping in the wind and beyond a four-column 春光看欲盡，判卻醉如泥。
inscription signed Laotong Pan Xifeng followed 老桐潘西鳳製。
by Pan Xifeng’s artist mark Xifeng
11 cm, 4¼ in. 「西鳳」印。
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31st October 2004, lot
186.
HK$ 350,000-450,000
US$ 44,600-57,500

This brushpot is signed Pan Xifeng (1736-
1795), also known as Tonggang and Laotong,
a bamboo carver who skillfully incorporated in
his works elements from the calligraphy and
painting traditions. Here, the figure’s robes
and faces are delicately rendered, the low
relief carving thrusts the subjects into the fore,
the texture of the bamboo vividly conveys the
movement and energy of wind and rain, and
his xingshu calligraphic inscription has all the
fluidity of brushwork.
Brushpots signed by Pan Xifeng and carved
in this style are unusual. Compare a brushpot
signed by him but carved in the liuqing
technique, illustrated in Liu Shuo-Shi, Zhuke
yishu [The art of bamboo carving], Shanghai,
1996, pl. 22; and one in the form of the bamboo
root, in the Guangdong Folk Arts Museum,
Guangzhou, included in the exhibition Literati
Spirit: Art of Chinese Bamboo Carving, Shanghai
Museum, Shanghai, 2012, cat. no. 81.

Mark