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           A BAMBOO ‘PINE’ BRUSHPOT                  十七世紀    竹雕松樹樁筆筒
           SIGNED ZHONGQIAN, 17TH CENTURY                    《仲謙敬鏤》款
           carved in the form of a section of a pine tree, naturalistically   來源:
           depicted with burls, whorls and scalps on the bark, the exterior   香港私人舊藏
           carved in high relief and openwork with gnarled knotted
           branches issuing clusters of pine needles, patinated to a   出版:
           chestnut-brown tone, the reverse lightly incised with a four-  葉義及譚志成,《中國竹刻藝術》,香港藝術館,香
           character signature reading Zhongqian jing lou (Respectfully
           carved by Zhongqian)                      港,1982年,下冊,頁190-191
           12 cm, 4¾ in.

           PROVENANCE
           An old Hong Kong private collection.
           LITERATURE
           Ip Yee and Laurence C.S. Tam, Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part
           II, Hong Kong, 1982 pp 190-191.
           HK$ 200,000-300,000
           US$ 25,500-38,300


           The vibrant high relief carving and naturalistic rendering of
           the pine branches wrapped around the trunk follows the Ming
           tradition of bamboo carving developed by the three Zhus, the
           most renowned family of bamboo carvers active from the 16th
           century. The current brushpot is signed Zhongqian, the sobri-
           quet of the bamboo carver Pu Cheng, who was active in the
           early 17th century.
           Compare a bamboo brushpot carved with cranes by Zhu He,
           in the Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, illustrated in Hai Bo, Zhu mu
           ya jiao qi zhenshang [Appreciation of bamboo, wood, ivory and
           horn], Tainan, 1995, pl. 30.




































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