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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTOR
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A CARVED OVAL BAMBOO BRUSH POT
19TH CENTURY
Of oval section, the brush pot is decorated on one side in incised negative carving with bamboo
issuing from a nodule just above the base as well as pendent from the mouth rim beside a four-character
inscription xie wei qing feng (pure breezes in gorges and valleys) and signed Xiaoquan followed by a
two-character seal that also reads Xiaoquan.
5¬ in. (14.3 cm.) high
$4,000-6,000

PROVENANCE
Private collection, Germany.
Nagel Auktionen, ‘From the Scholar’s Studio, 88 Objects for Use and Inspiration’, Stuttgart,
6 June 2005, lot 238.
Private collection, America, 2005-2013.
Nicholas Grindley, London, June 2014.
LITERATURE
N. Grindley, June 2014, London, no. 11.

There are a number of nineteenth-century artists that used the hao Xiaoquan, but none of them is
recorded as a bamboo carver or even necessarily a painter of bamboo.
清十九世紀 竹刻「觧為清風」筆筒

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