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A ‘HUANGHUALI’ BRUSHPOT (BITONG), QING A CARVED ‘HUANGHUALI’ ‘FLORAL’ BRUSHPOT 十七 / 十八世紀 黃花梨雕花卉紋筆筒
DYNASTY, 18TH - 19TH CENTURY (BITONG), 17TH / 18TH CENTURY 來源
Height 6⅞ in., 17.5 cm
Height 5¼ in., 13.3 cm [矞擬]，舊金山
PROVENANCE
PROVENANCE
Peter Wong, Ever Arts Gallery, San Francisco.
Peter Wong, Ever Arts Gallery, San Francisco.
Vibrantly carved to the exterior with blossoming flowers,
◉ $ 4,000-6,000
this huanghuali brushpot exudes technical mastery. As
the decoration is raised proud from the body, the carver
had to carefully shave away all of the negative space of the
清十八至十九世紀 黃花梨筆筒 decoration, a decadent wastage of the precious material.
Brush pots with comparable decoration are relatively rare:
來源
compare the present work with an similarly-sized example
[矞擬]，舊金山
illustrated by Stephen Little in Spirit Stones of China: The Ian
and Susan Wilson Collection of Chinese Stones, Paintings,
and Related Scholars’ Objects, Berkeley, 1999, cat. no. 56.
See, also, a carved ‘floral’ brushpot from the collection of the
Reverend Richard Fabian, sold in these rooms, 15th March
276 2016, lot 17.
◉ $ 15,000-25,000

277

AN INSCRIBED AND CARVED BAMBOO AND
‘ZITAN’ BRUSHPOT (BITONG), QING DYNASTY,
18TH CENTURY
inscribed in relief to one side with an apocryphal Zhou Zhiyan
signature
Height 5½ in., 14 cm
PROVENANCE
Peter Wong, Ever Arts Gallery, San Francisco.

$ 6,000-8,000

清十八世紀 竹雕嵌紫檀羽獵圖筆筒
題識：
南山羽獵
芷岩
鈐印：
周
來源
277 [矞擬]，舊金山

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