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165* Y
A HUANGHUALI FLY WHISK
18th/19th century
The handle finely carved with a helical surface, set with horsehair, partly
dyed red, with Japanese box and cover. 28.2cm (11 1/8in) long (3).

£2,000 - 3,000
CNY18,000 - 27,000

十八/十九世紀 黃花梨拂塵

Provenance: Nagao Unzan (1864-1942) (inscription on Japanese
wood box)

來源： 長尾雨山（1864-1942）先生舊藏（木盒銘文）

Although fly whisks did serve a practical purpose, they were also
symbols of the literati’s sagely other-worldliness, representing
themselves as those who swept away the dust of the mundane world.
See Art from the Scholars’s Studio, Hong Kong, 1986, p.268. The
calligraphy on the box was written by Nagao Unzan (1864-1942), a
calligrapher and sinologist from Takamatsu, Kagawa prefecture, who
lived in Kyoto.

166*
A BAMBOO AND LACQUER TRAY
17th century
The lacquered tray of chocolate-brown tone with a fine craquelure,
surrounded by bamboo struts between plain borders of cylindrical
section, Japanese wood box. 23.9cm (9 3/8in) square. (2).

£1,500 - 2,000
CNY13,000 - 18,000

十七世紀 黑漆竹雕文具盤

167
A RARE BRONZE ‘BACTRIAN CAMEL’ WATER DROPPER
Song/ Ming Dynasty
Cast as a recumbent camel with two humps to its back, its head
slightly lifted to form the spout, the legs neatly bent and tucked
underneath the body, fitted box. 9.5cm (3 3/4in) wide (2).

£4,000 - 6,000
165 CNY36,000 - 53,000

宋/明 銅駱駝水注

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