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Compare the zitan square brush pot in the collection of the Palace Museum, Beijing, inlaid with very similar blossoming
prunus branches and silver-wire seal script calligraphy with text matching one of the poems inscribed on the present
box, followed by the artist’s signature Xueju 雪居 (Owner of Snow Dwelling), illustrated in Zhongguo meishu fenlei quanji:
Zhongguo zhu, mu, ya, jiao qi quanji (Compendium of Chinese Art: Chinese Carving of Bamboo, Wood, Ivory, and Horn), Vol.
3, Beijing, 2009, p. 223, no. 180, with a very brief biography of Sun Kehong.
Compare also the zitan covered cup and the zitan hexagonal cup in the Palace Museum, Beijing, both with very similar
silver-wire inlaid calligraphy, key-fret borders and signed with Sun Kehong’s various names, illustrated in Gugong diaoke
zhencui (The Palace Museum Collection of Elite Carvings), Beijing, 2002, pp. 98-99, nos. 63 and 64, described as late Ming
dynasty.

明 孫克弘製 紫檀銀絲詩文百寶嵌梅紋蓋盒 長 25.3 厘米 寬 15.2 厘米 高 10.3 厘米
「克弘」款

來源 倫敦佳士得 2011 年 11 月 8 日，拍品第 235 號
水松石山房藏