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New York |23 Sep 2020 | 09:00 AM EDT

Lot 792

A FAMILLE -VERTE 'SEVEN SAGES' BRUSHPOT, QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
Estimate: 25,000 - 35,000 USD

A FAMILLE-VERTE 'SEVEN SAGES' BRUSHPOT
QING DYNASTY, KANGXI PERIOD
清康熙 五彩竹林七賢圖筆筒

of cylindrical form, finely and vibrantly enameled with a continuous scene of the 'Seven Sages' in a bamboo grove with craggy
overhanging rocks, engaged in various scholarly pursuits including one playing the qin, another reading poetry, and one practicing
calligraphy on a rock face, accompanied by an attendant, the countersunk base partially glazed

Diameter 7⅜ in., 18.6 cm

Provenance
Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 4th-5th December 1958, lot 268.

來源
Parke-Bernet Galleries，紐約，1958年12月4至5日，編號268

Catalogue Note
The ‘Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove’ were a group of poets, musicians, and scholar-officials active in the third century who
retreated from public service as an act of political protest. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, this was a favorite subject of painters,
carvers, and ceramicists, who depicted the scholars composing poetry, playing the qin, appreciating antiquities, and engaging in
various lofty pursuits. Bamboo carvers and potters of the Kangxi era often applied this theme to brushpots and other objects for
the scholar’s studio.

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