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THE PROPERTY OF AN IMPORTANT AMERICAN COLLECTOR
1250
A SMALL CARVED BAMBOO BRUSH POT
17TH-18TH CENTURY
The brush pot, of squat, cylindrical shape, is well carved in relief through the outer skin with a scene of
a bearded scholar seated beside a stack of books beneath one of two bare-branched trees that separate
him from a rocky mountainside beside a plunging waterfall.
4 in. (10.2 cm.) high
$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE
Sotheby’s Hong Kong, 31 October 1995, lot 573.
Private collection, Germany.
Nagel Auktionen, Stuttgart, ‘From the Scholar’s Studio, 88 Objects for Use and Inspiration’,
6 June 2005, lot 219.
Private collection, America, 2005-2013.
Nicholas Grindley, London, June 2014.
LITERATURE
N. Grindley, June 2014, London, no. 6.
十七/十八世紀 竹刻高士圖筆筒

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