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AN INSCRIBED BAMBOO ‘PEONY’ 清十八世紀 竹雕牡丹圖詩文筆筒
BRUSHPOT 《夢山居士》《樊放叄》款
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
the cylindrical body raised on three low bracketed feet, one 題識：
side boldly carved with branches of large blossoming peony
戊午秋八月之中浣書，夢山居士製。
flowers with two small hovering butterflies, the other side
carved with a long inscription signed Mengshan Jushi zhi, dated 光緒乙巳仲秋樊放叄識。
to the wuwu year, corresponding to probably 1738 or 1798,
來源：
followed by a colophon dated to the yisi year in the Guangxu
香港蘇富比2011年10月5日，編號2025
reign, (in accordance with 1905), the bamboo of reddish brown
tone and smooth patina
15.8 cm, 6¼ in.
PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 5th October 2011, lot 2025.
HK$ 60,000-80,000
US$ 7,700-10,300

A closely related bamboo brushpot by Deng Wei, signed
Yunqiao and dated 1780, similarly decorated with deep carving
in a sunken ground, with identical touches including the
butterfly, is illustrated by Wang Shixiang and Wan-go Weng, Marks
Bamboo Carving of China, China Institute in America, New
York, 1983, p. 124, pl. 67.

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