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A Superbly carved bamboo root brushpot, Qing Dynasty, 18th…
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Sydney
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12-Dec-2016
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A Superbly carved bamboo root brushpot, Qing Dynasty, 18th century, in the form of a hollow pine trunk, finely carved in the round with two cranes standing beside a pine tree under a gnarled branch, the bark of the tree with raised scales, a cluster of pine needles edging over the rim of the pot, 11.5 cm high, *the subject of pine (song) and cranes (he) is a rebus, songhe changchun (May you stay young forever). Reference: see Appreciation of bamboo, wood, ivory and horn, Tianan, 1995, plate 30 for a similar example in the Nanjing Museum, also for two brushpots in the same style attributed to the 17th century, see Chinese bamboo carving, part 1, Hong Kong Museum of Art, 1982, cat. No. 4 & 5 and part 11, no. 5, also, see Sotheby's Hong Kong, the Robert Blumenfield Collection of Chinese bamboo carvings 7/4/2015, lot 3054 for a very similar example from Sydney L. Moss, London. Provenance: acquired by a private collector in Hong Kong in the 1950s-1960s and passed on by descent
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