AN EXCEPTIONAL FINELY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY Exquisitely carved in low relief from a segment of bamboo of rich honey-brown tones, with composite scenes of figures in landscape, one side depicting a gathering of sages in a bamboo grove beside a flowing stream amidst rocks and trees, with billowing clouds above, the other side of the cylindrical brushpot with a scene from the painting, 'Literary Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion', featuring scholars seated in a pavilion, in animated discussion on a riverbank shaded by pine and wutong trees, and assembled in a bamboo grove 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high, original stand, Japanese wood box
AN EXCEPTIONAL FINELY CARVED BAMBOO BRUSHPOT QING DYNASTY, 17TH/18TH CENTURY Exquisitely carved in low relief from a segment of bamboo of rich honey-brown tones, with composite scenes of figures in landscape, one side depicting a gathering of sages in a bamboo grove beside a flowing stream amidst rocks and trees, with billowing clouds above, the other side of the cylindrical brushpot with a scene from the painting, 'Literary Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion', featuring scholars seated in a pavilion, in animated discussion on a riverbank shaded by pine and wutong trees, and assembled in a bamboo grove 6 1/8 in. (15.6 cm.) high, original stand, Japanese wood box
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