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PROPERTY FROM AN IMPORTANT PRIVATE COLLECTION
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A CARVED RED LACQUER ‘THREE FRIENDS OF WINTER’
BRUSH AND COVER
LATE MING-EARLY QING DYNASTY, 17TH-18TH CENTURY
The brush handle and cover are both fnely carved with prunus, pine and
bamboo, ‘The Three Friends of Winter’, with plain borders and a mallow
fower carved at the end of the handle and the end of the cover.
10 in. (25.4 cm.) long, Japanese wood box, silk pouch
$18,000-25,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Japan.
Christie’s New York, 17 September 2008, lot 128.
A red lacquer brush of comparable size and carved with a similar design
of ‘The Three Friends of Winter’, but reserved on a diaper ground, is in the
collection of Tokugawa Art Museum and illustrated in Carved Lacquer,
The Tokugawa Art Museum and the Nezu Institute of Fine Arts, Tokyo,
1984, no. 206.
明末/清初十七至十八世紀 剔紅歲寒三友圖筆

(detail)

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