A FINELY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT, BITONG
17TH/18TH CENTURY
A FINELY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT, BITONG 17TH/18TH CENTURY Deeply carved and undercut with a scene from the Lanting Xu (Orchid Pavilion Preface), depicting numerous scholars and attendants in a wooded mountain setting, with one group gathered around a table set with painting or writing materials, another group seated discussing books in a bamboo grove, a third group in a pavilion raised on pilings above the swirling waters of a river that bisects the scene, with ducks in the water and scholars and attendants on the river banks, with smaller groupings of scholars and attendants, and one attendant standing off to one side beside a table laden with scholars' objects, with huanghuali mounts 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, box
A FINELY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT, BITONG
17TH/18TH CENTURY
A FINELY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT, BITONG 17TH/18TH CENTURY Deeply carved and undercut with a scene from the Lanting Xu (Orchid Pavilion Preface), depicting numerous scholars and attendants in a wooded mountain setting, with one group gathered around a table set with painting or writing materials, another group seated discussing books in a bamboo grove, a third group in a pavilion raised on pilings above the swirling waters of a river that bisects the scene, with ducks in the water and scholars and attendants on the river banks, with smaller groupings of scholars and attendants, and one attendant standing off to one side beside a table laden with scholars' objects, with huanghuali mounts 6½ in. (16.5 cm.) high, box
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