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A RETICULATED BAMBOO BRUSH POT
17TH CENTURY
The sides are well carved in openwork with a literati gathering where scholars and their
attendants are shown at various pursuits, including one painting on a rock face beside
two playing weiqi while a third observes, two groups of scholars in conversation, and a
central group appreciating a painting beneath a pine tree.
6º in. (16 cm.) high, Japanese wood box
$15,000-20,000
Compare the related Qing dynasty bamboo brush pot in the Palace Museum collection, Beijing,
illustrated in Zhongguo Meishu Fenlei Quanji - Zhongguo Zhumu Yajiaoji Quanji, vol. 1,
2009, p. 55, no. 64. See, also, a related well-carved brush pot with similar scenes of a literati
gathering from the collection of Dr. Ip Yee, illustrated by Ip Yee and Laurence C.S. Tam in
Chinese Bamboo Carving, Part I, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1978, pp. 210-11, no. 40, where
it is dated 17th century.
明末清初 竹雕「西園雅集」圖筆筒
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